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Priciest Slab of Cholesterol Japan's richly marbled Kobe beef, from beer-fed cattle, was featured for the first time on the menus of a few U.S. restaurants. For $100 or so, you could order an inch-high steak weighing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of Food | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Donning a Santa hat and a six-inch plastic nose, Kosanovich sank his first free throw and three-pointer, thrilling the crowd...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Anthem Inspires W. Cagers To a Wacky Win at Briggs | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

Since ancient times people have believed that long hair bestows power and an aura of sensuality. Cliff Aron, 34, president of BEI, an energy-services firm based in New York City, has a ponytail that ends an inch below his shoulders. When people see it, he says, "they know they're dealing with someone special. They have to feel that I am successful if I can get away with this." Bob Rolke, 18, a varsity swimmer at Washington's American University, has barely had a trim in the past two years and says of his mass of bronze curls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Long and Short of It | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...GLORY: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM S. PALEY by Sally Bedell Smith (Simon & Schuster; $29.95). An 800-page biography that flattens the image of the late self-inflating CBS founder and relentless socialite to 21-inch size and even smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 3, 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...only lets you take eight-inch steps. That doesn't seem like very much. I thought this was like mountain climbing, but it's really only little steps," the pale fellow added...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

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