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...embarrassed," she rails, explaining that cold pasta is not a part of traditional Italian cuisine. Not that she doesn't favor many American foods: hot dogs, pastrami, the world's best steaks, corn on the cob. Says she: "Americans are so much more curious and open-minded about food than Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Battling Spaghetti O Taste Buds | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

From dawn to dusk these days, Bush has taken the dewy path along the Rose Garden and wondered about his fate. Not in despondency -- that is not his nature -- but in a detached, curious and wary way. Once he looked up after long hours of deliberation and said, "The decisions are getting tougher." So true. No good answers present themselves. He chooses now from the best of the bad, which is the usual way in government. Last Thursday his crisis pace reached its peak, as shown in these remarkable pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Busy Thursday | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...game of lawn bowling; in American, they converge on a twelve-lane bowling alley. And in Western, the roads are lined with pigs, while in American, they are crowded with Jeep Cherokees. Although the 76 square miles of American land is clearly more affluent, it is also, in a curious way, more derelict. "You'll notice that the ceremonies in Western Samoa are much more relaxed," says John Enright, American Samoa's Folk Arts Coordinator. "Over here they're more uptight. There's always a fear that they're losing their traditions, or that they won't get things quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pago Pago, American Samoa Whose Nation Is This Anyway? | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...went along with it. After all, I was curious to find out what being a reporter meant to a seven-year...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Going After the News | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...Benton's is a curious case because, despite all the hollering he and his admirers produced about down-home values and art for the common man, he was no kind of naif. He had studied in Paris before World War I and was closely tied to the expatriate avant-garde there, especially Stanton Macdonald-Wright, whose "synchromist" abstractions were among the most advanced experiments being done by any American painter. In New York in the early '20s, Benton dressed (as one of his friends would remark) like "the antithesis of everything American," and had a peripheral relationship to Alfred Stieglitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tarted Up Till the Eye Cries Uncle | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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