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Come to Laurenland, the images whisper, where fantasy and finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe...
...TIME writers and art directors judged entries from around the country and awarded five $5,000 and three $500 college scholarships to high school and college competitors. The grants were for essays and illustrations that best demonstrated skill at comprehending and discussing topics arising from the news. Of course, crisp and clear presentation counted too. Says Staff Writer Janice Castro, who helped judge the competition: "We were looking for an ability to think clearly. I was impressed by the students' interest in events and by their strongly felt opinions...
Given the remorseless nature of her writing, Rendell, 56, is surprisingly coy about her attempts to comprehend the workings of the criminal mind. "I do research," she says in crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who has emigrated to Denver, "was a children's officer and has been rather a help with psychopaths and with case histories, especially of children in care." She disclaims firsthand acquaintance with crimes and sounds positively appalled when discussing readers who write in with suggestions they have concocted: "I am always...
...these new products is not limited to New York and California, as food trends so often are. In Chicago, the current rage is jicama (pronounced hee-kahmah), a knobby, earth-colored tuber from Mexico; it looks rather like a giant water chestnut, which is just about what this crisp, icy salad vegetable tastes like. Jicama has been heavily promoted at the 87 Dominick's supermarkets, with good results. "We used to sell a case per store every other week or so," says Mario Zullo, the chain's head produce buyer. "Now we sell two to three cases per store each...
...tapas tavern and one of the first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish and Continental. "About 65% of our business is now tapas," says the chef, who offers them...