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...drapes and a 70-year-old coat-check girl and a pianist who plays Deep Purple and the waitresses have names like Agnes and Gladys and the menu harks back to the Age of Steak; a place where a fiftyish couple can enjoy a Manhattan and tuck into a chunk of cow and au gratin potato. Murray's serves the Silver Butter Knife Steak for Two. That's the special, and it's been around since I was learning to read--I saw it advertised on billboards around town. I'd form the words MURRAY'S and SILVER BUTTER KNIFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF ELEGANCE | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

Murphy, who said he holds no hard feelings, did say that a small minority of parents received a disproportionate chunk of media attention during the selection process...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Native Takes Helm of Cambridge School District | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

They don't have to. By gathering all that Net capacity, WorldCom is building a low-cost back road that can deliver E-mail and other data among corporate clients from Boston to Hong Kong. The company recently launched an Internet fax service in a bid for a chunk of the $92 billion fax market. "If you find a way to fax over the Internet, you are going to take a huge piece of what is pretty much the growth segment of the [phone] industry," says the frenetic John Sidgmore, vice chairman of WorldCom and CEO of UUNet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLDCOM: QUIET CONQUEROR | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...mantra gapes below us--a foot-wide crescent studded with hundreds of razor-sharp, serrated, half-inch-long triangular teeth. This fish is only half-grown--an adult tiger shark can surpass 14 ft. in length--but it could easily take off a hand or an arm, or a chunk of torso you wouldn't want to try and live without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER ATTACK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...videotaped white-shark attacks. All seem to follow a pattern. The powerful first bite usually takes place underwater, and the first sign of an attack is often a blood slick on the surface. Within 20 min., a sea lion or seal pops to the surface with a big chunk taken out of it. Then the shark appears, seizes the carcass and finishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER ATTACK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

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