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Unfortunately, Lucy's day doesn't get any better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Grave Mistake | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...attempt to bring art to life for her students, Ritsuko Taho, who teaches VES 30, "Fundamentals of Sculpture", gave each of her students a live chicken and instructed them to keep it for a day, take it to a slaughterhouse, and watch it be killed...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: VES Students Slaughter Birds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Taho said she also asked her students to cook and eat the chicken and use the bones in an original sculpture...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: VES Students Slaughter Birds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...starting to siphon some big-time investors' funds away from the stock market. Many individuals are taking their market profits and putting them in banks. Says Charles Allman, editor of the Growth Stock Outlook newsletter: "I'm neither a bear nor a bull. Right now I'm just chicken." Along with a lot of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's October Massacre | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...tests abound. "This is a good little instrument for surfacing data," says an instructor as he hands out a 90-question "preference inventory." In his class on managerial effectiveness, William Zierdt offers individual analysis of the results, adding, "I also read tea leaves, or you can bring your own chicken." Thus a volunteer learns that he's a decision- making rationalist with no emotional content. "Hell, that's success in the business world," says Zierdt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: Seminars Everywhere | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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