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...told of these treeless lands, I imagined that it was a country ravaged by fire, where the soil was so poor that it could produce nothing. But we have certainly observed the contrary; and no better soil can be found, either for corn, or for vines, or for any fruit whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Preserve of Splendid Grass | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...three-year-old Filly is merely an upstart compared to the pink Hong Kong Restaurant (1236 Mass. Ave.) which packs them in for miles. Drink the Scorpion Bowl, a tropical concoction of supposed fruit juices and phantom alcohol. It will take a couple of these to get buzzed but by that time you'll be broke...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Drink 'Til You Drop | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...countries and focus on politically controversial goals like fostering contraception. "Because philanthropy is not concerned with election returns or stockholders, we see ourselves deliberately moving into things that government and business are not picking up," says Rockefeller Foundation Vice President Kenneth Prewitt. In America, charity is not just the fruit of compassion; it is a legacy of free choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Pockets for Doing Good | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...After one laborious climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone strawberry. A cowbell used to guard the refrigerator from desperate raiders; it was abandoned as excessive, but the food still is not. At dinner one night, Brad Rosenberg, 43, a Los Angeles real estate developer, set aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shake a Leg, Mrs. Plushbottom | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Catherine would have had more than two dimensions. The first is what Edmund Wilson called "the all- too-perfect felicity of a youthful erotic dream." The second hinges on the age-old view of woman as the cause of original sin. Catherine is a spoiler whose taste in forbidden fruit threatens the private Eden of David's art. It is the place where he struggles with his own lost innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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