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...Less polished and more popular with the older crowd is Guan Hoe Soo at 214 Joo Chiat Road, tel: (65) 6344 2761, one of Singapore's signature Peranakan restaurants fusing Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese cuisine. It's been serving fish-head curry and sotong, or squid, sambal since 1953. Even Lee Kuan Yew is rumored to order takeout from here. With dishes like these on Singapore's menu, eating for two has never been so easy...
DIED. JAY CHIAT, 70, idealistic adman whose influential Los Angeles-based firm, Chiat/Day, pioneered the "West Coast style" of conveying strong messages without prominently featuring logos, as in Nike's 1984 billboard portraits of Olympic athletes with a tiny swoosh in the corner; of prostate cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Among the firm's other creations: Apple's 1984 campaign (based on the Orwell novel) to introduce the Macintosh PC, in which a brightly dressed woman rebels against look-alike zombies; and the drumming Energizer Bunny. A tough boss, Chiat once said, "My real talent was for losing clients...
...when flat organization structures, low salaries and the dream of an IPO captivated everybody, one symbol of the democratic capitalist revolution was the wall-less office, which brought together CEOS and corporate grunts in one big, happy, synergistic family. Andy Grove had--and still has--a cubicle; Jay Chiat didn't even have that. The wall-less office ruled...
...Will Service Still Stink?," Judith Martin, a.k.a. Miss Manners, politely gives us the answer: Yes, but not in the ways you think. At least advertising will become more interesting, predicts Jay Chiat, who made his name with groundbreaking ads for Apple and Nike. Business editor Bill Saporito, who oversaw half this package, mediated a sometimes testy debate about whether the Dow will ever hit 50,000. On one side: Robert Shiller, author of the just published Irrational Exuberance. On the other side: Kevin Hassett and James Glassman, who made a splash last year with their book...
...Chiat cofounded Chiat/Day, which created ads for Nike and Apple ("1984"), among others. He now heads ScreamingMedia...