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...chef at Seasons, the restaurant in the Bostonian Hotel. Here traditional grilled lobster is garnished with untraditional chive butter and Chinese pot stickers--steamed dumplings filled with lobster, pork and ginger. "The average diner is very much aware of 'new American cuisine,'" says Shire. "It's out of the fad stage and is really the creative cooking of good simple food, using American products and infusing some kinds of classical preparations...
...even in the yuppie culture, the power of nostalgia is not to be denied. In contrast to the subtle refinements of new American cooking is the current fad for hefty, rough-around-the-edges, down-home or "Momma" cooking, encompassing a variety of regional and ethnic styles. What is regarded as Momma cooking in one part of the country is a bold new taste sensation a few hundred miles away...
...doing a bad female impersonation. His Big Adventure (directed by Tim Burton) consists of trying to recover his stolen bicycle. His big mystery lies in his strange appeal for adolescents. Is he yet another vehicle through which they can sentimentalize their childhoods? Is he just the latest grotesque fad? Is he to the Reagan era what Pinky Lee was to Eisenhower's? Impossible to say. But fair warning: this movie could induce terminal boredom in adults and rot the minds of the young...
With all the hype about the countless fad diets out there, it was nice to read praise for the healthier method of staying in physical shape--getting off one's duff and exercising. It was courageous of TIME to point out Americans' laziness and make the connection between obesity and our passion for convenience. Being healthy takes more than putting down the feedbag. It means getting off the couch and engaging in forward motion. What a novel concept...
Where There's A Fad, There's A Market Markets are perfectly rational instruments, according to some economists. But others have their doubts. It's not just the unexplained ups and downs of particular stocks or indices. Even something as sober as how stock markets are organized is as susceptible to fads as a teenage consumer. Just a few years ago, several big West European countries felt the need to reproduce their own versions of the U.S.'s tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange. After a few lackluster years, some, like Germany's Neuer Markt, fell out of favor and the survivors...