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...discouraging news: this is the first year the Pillsbury Bake-Off prize shot up to $1 million--and a man won it. Women have only themselves to blame for this. Sleep deprived, they accepted help in the kitchen. But male cooking is not the everyday feeding of a household; it's a cameo, virtuoso performance in which every dish is used to produce an elaborate meal at midnight. Congratulations and a pass on cleaning up are expected--after all, he cooked! Men can prepare $20-per-lb. salmon in a $300 fish poacher, the cuisine equivalent of golf...
...communications and transportation, almost all prices have been decontrolled. Rapid price increases lowered the standard of living for many Russians, and some 30 million, in a nation of 147.5 million, still live at or below the official subsistence level. At the same time, shops are full of food and household goods of immense variety. Lines, once the everyday nightmare for Soviet-era consumers, now form only when crowds try to get into the Reebok store and other specialty shops...
...dinner-table debates over corned beef and cabbage. William Buchanan--always "Pop" to his seven sons and two daughters--was a successful accountant. But the model he set for his third son Patrick was not of green-eyeshade bookkeeping but red-blooded combativeness. In the basement of the Buchanan household, Pop Buchanan rigged up a punching bag and made each of his sons pound it four times a week: 100 times with the left, 100 times with the right, 200 combinations. For Pop, as for his son Pat, the holy trinity was faith, family and country, and a fellow...
...modernizing of NASCAR's audience is a reflection of changes in average American income and education level, especially in the Deep South. Almost a third of NASCAR fans have household incomes above $50,000, and more than a quarter are professional or managerial--a far cry from the pickup-truck-and-overalls crowd of the sport's earliest days. Increasingly plush speedway facilities--air-conditioned VIP boxes and gourmet food, anyone?--have helped pull in this more upscale crowd...
What would persuade her to pose for photos with the stars of the shows, JEAN SMART of High Society, FRAN DRESCHER of The Nanny, CANDICE BERGEN of Murphy Brown, MARY MCDONNELL of Society and NANCY MCKEON of Can't Hurry Love, some of whom are barely household names? Actually, just a nice request and a substantial donation to Taylor's aids charity, AmFAR. (A CBS staff member who used to live next door to Taylor's assistant helped.) "We thought it was such a long shot," says Maddy Horne, CBs VP of current programming. "But she said the idea...