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...Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence launched the "house book" craze in 1989, and his contribution is acknowledged with an excerpt, along with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Shelf | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...Florida started the specialty license plate craze by introducing the “Challenger” memorial license plate. Since then, specialty plates from Florida’s “Save the Manatees” in 1991 to Massachusetts’s “Invest in Children” in 1998 surcharges from the sale of plates have helped state legislatures finance important projects. But worthy causes don’t always get their specialty plates approved so easily...

Author: By Paul C. Schultz, | Title: A License Plate for Life | 1/30/2003 | See Source »

...craze had its sour side. It may have deflected Al's daughter from a career in the theater (could she ever live up to her name being publicized weekly in the Times?). And because the search for Ninas occasionally got more attention than the drawing than concealed them, some Hirschfeldians argue that it reduced his standing from an artist to a puzzle-constructor. But he couldn't stop and, as a giver of pleasure, he wouldn't want to. Those ten strokes simply added to the density, as well as the delight, of a Hirschfeld drawing. They also answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Fun in Al Hirschfeld | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

...thrilled to be still in business - and influential - today. "I'm more enthusiastic now because I know what I'm doing," she says. "I know what kind of woman I dress." Meanwhile copies of her earliest creations are making a catwalk comeback as part of the current craze for vintage. "When I began to work, I was so free, I knew just what I wanted to do," Rykiel reminisces. "I never thought that one day those clothes would be vintage, that everyone would want them." - By Taryn Bickley

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stellar Success | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...profitable quarter under their belts?a rare distinction for any Internet company. The secret? Unlike Yahoo, Terra Lycos or most international competitors, chortals have found ways to parlay their user bases into sales by taking a new approach to selling ads, collecting fees for wireless services and harnessing the craze for online games. "Chinese portals originally followed Yahoo. Now they have become a leader," gushes Chang Qiu, managing director of Forun Technologies, a research company that focuses on China's tech sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back from the Brink | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

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