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Everyone seems to be in a separate little world. Up front two women intently munch on chicken wings. Two others gesture with the hands, making points in a conversation drowned out by the groan of the wheels. Someone else reads an MIT newspaper, The Tech...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Enduring a Boring Trip For City's Excitement | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...first day back in Johannesburg. "I wasn't taking pictures," Magubane says. "I said, 'You look quite good. You haven't changed.' It was a relief to see him out of prison." Two nights later, the two men, who have known each other nearly 40 years, shared a chicken curry dinner in Mandela's Soweto home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Feb 26 1990 | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

While Nassau's nightlife is legendary, its food is generally nothing to write home about (just try to name a Bahamian culinary specialty.) That's why most spring breakers--afraid of sampling the native fare--will eat exclusively at the local outposts of some more familiar institutions: Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonalds and, yes, Taco Bell...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: When It Really Is Better in the Bahamas | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

...newspaper," Ion, a Bucharest undergraduate, said last week. "For the first time here, there's news worth reading." And food lines? At least the queues are for food, say Rumanians, savoring their first beefburgers in memory. Ceausescu drove his subjects to fisticuffs over rations of offal and chicken feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Hooray! Traffic Jams at Last | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

Potential hit or not, Grand debunks any notion that Carsey and Werner have a magic touch. Their shows until now have been driven by stars with well- developed comic personas. (Chicken Soup failed because it never created a plausible milieu for its star. Jackie Mason as a social worker?) Grand depends instead on an ensemble cast, which seems adrift with characters thrown together as arbitrarily as passengers on a lifeboat. Joel Murray has some funny moments as old man Weldon's flaky son, and Reed gives off sexy sparks as the trailer-park mom. But they don't keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Banging Away at the Piano Works | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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