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...already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Familiar Munch Goes Gourmet | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...down-home Kansas City restaurant frequented by Presidents and championed by some critics as the world's greatest barbecue joint; of a heart attack; in Kansas City. Upon taking over the place in 1946, Bryant swiftly introduced his own legendary sauce-red, grainy and spicy-and downgraded the decor, saying that fancier "wouldn't be no grease house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...small leap of the imagination from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and that Jen's adventures will frequently echo the Hobbit Frodo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings. As narrative, the incidents in The Dark Crystal are unremarkable; as the excuse for special effects, fanciful decor and eccentric characters, they do nicely enough. Here, as in such ambitious films as Blade Runner and Diva, texture is more important than text. The slow funeral procession of Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis' cruddy doge's palace, in which these hilariously sloppy eaters dine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magical, Mystical Muppet Tour | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...trees," Jean Lock, who runs the shop and nursery with her husband says. Soon the operation spread into seven full rooms of the house. "With a staple gun and a can of gold spray paint, you can really make the inside sparkle," says Lock, describing the shop's current decor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Just Little Things to Go With the Trees' | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

Powers says the restaurant's Fresh Pond location does not make the decor inappropriate adding, "We're really not that far away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Burger King Serves Up Burgers, Frappes a la Veritas | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

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