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Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...
THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE: THE WORLD OF BEATRIX POTTER, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Childhood would be a fallow field without the carrot patches and flopsy bunnies of this great storyteller. But Peter and his friends weren't Potter's only creations, and the show also delves into a trove of her naturalistic sketches. Kids will love the accompanying tea parties and interactive video games. Through...
...topic of conversation among young mothers today, and of more than passing interest to fathers. The job is a tangle of double binds. Should a mother stay at home, providing the values, discipline and security her children need, and let her hard-earned job skills go fallow? Or should she take a chance that her kids will be O.K. and pursue a life that brings more personal satisfaction and economic advantages? "It's very hard," says Stephanie Burchfield, a Los Angeles public-relations executive and mother of an 8-month-old. "I see her only an hour in the morning...
...from others of their race -- more gifted, harder working, more attractive, somehow more noble. The implication is that unlike most of their ethnic cohorts, they are individuals worthy of our pity or concern. Tom Wolfe parodied this syndrome in The Bonfire of the Vanities, when he described reporter Peter Fallow pumping an English teacher for details about a black youth struck by a car. After ascertaining that the young man attended class regularly, Fallow proceeds to describe him as an "honor student...
Memere's, a Louisiana-style restaurant in Oak Park, Ill., has a loyal clientele for its rattlesnake gumbo. The New Deal restaurant in New York City's Soho is corralling herds of diners with its beaver empanada, kangaroo yakitori and black-buck antelope. Next month Fallow Deer Associates of Hudson, N.Y., will begin supplying health-food stores with prepackaged ground venison and venison burgers...