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...mother. She's the only acceptable nurse. Her college-age brothers can't help much. Besides, her pampered father, a philandering literature professor on whose preening intellect she has modeled her own, has demanded that she come. Ellen, once the town prodigy, now awkwardly learns to change sheets and cook supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: 3-D Mother | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Ohio's 19th Congressional District, which runs through Cleveland's suburbs, freshman Representative Eric Fingerhut faces Republican challenger Steven LaTourette, a onetime local prosecutor. "Certainly someone who makes his living putting people behind bars has instant credibility with voters," observes Benjamin / Sheffner, who follows House races for the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan Washington newsletter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off to the Races | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Guantanamo is entirely dependent on its own resources and supplies flown in from mainland U.S. or floated by barge from the Florida Keys. Massive new shipments of water, desalinating and generating equipment may be needed. Plus food, of course. And people -- maybe 4,000 more U.S. troops to build, cook for and police the camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cubans, Go Home | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...More Do I Need?, from an unproduced Sondheim musical of 1954, ! Saturday Night; and That's Him, from Weill and Ogden Nash's 1943 One Touch of Venus. Accompanied alternately by small ensembles and an orchestra, Upshaw stakes her claim as theater music's most luminous ingenue since Barbara Cook -- vulnerable yet resolute, urgently soaring yet as down-to-earth as the girl next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dawn Upshaw: The Diva Next Door | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Easy. It's Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung), a master chef, slicing, dicing, chopping, boiling, broiling, steaming the ingredients of the dinner he prepares every Sunday for his three not entirely grateful daughters. It's the culinary arts rendered as thrillingly as the martial arts, with a middle-age Taiwanese cook appearing as deft and graceful in his peaceful trade as Bruce Lee ever was in his more violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Chef's Ballad | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

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