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...stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of others. When Bette Midler made a six-figure offer for the rights to Rendell's favorite book, The Killing Doll, the author spurned the offer. Midler, she says, was wrong for the role...
Between the two sections of the ship, the Woods Hole scientists found a large debris field littered with artifacts: a copper kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing...
...request of Chinese officials, numerous western-based companies have started up operations inside China's several special economic zones, including huge factories for cabbagepatch doll clothing. In addition, cultural and educational Sino-U.S. exchanges are increasing. Approximately 15,000 Chinese students now attend universities in America. And the number of American students and teachers going to China has risen significantly in the last three years...
...throw the burghers into the turmoil he hoped for, but they made an indelible impression on his friends, a circle that included the satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos and a galaxy of painters from Gustav Klimt to Wassily Kandinsky. His most eccentric episode was that of the doll. In the spring of 1912 he fell violently in love with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer and a pretentious man-eater. Their affair lasted three years, and she dumped him in favor of the architect Walter Gropius soon after Kokoschka enlisted in the imperial dragoons to fight...
...very eclectic eater," says Terry Johnston, as she nibbles her way through doll-size portions, of stuffed mushrooms, marinated beans, and potato salad with capers at the tapas restaurant in the Broadway department store in Glendale, Calif. "I've been to Spain," Johnston confides, "and this is a bit of nostalgia." For Don Kenway, the store's vice president for food services, offering tapas in a department-store setting is a gamble. He is pleased with the progress the small cafe has made since it opened in December. "It's an educational process," he says. "Some people confuse Spanish food...