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...himself. They come in kits and are made of solid cherrywood, not veneer. The component timbers are precisely slotted and notched to fit without nails, screws or glue. In each instance, the final component -- for instance, the top of the dining table -- acts as a keystone to hold the item together. It's the '90s ideal: classic, ingenious, unpretentious, real...
...Massimo Morozzi: Alessi Bottle Opener The Italian company Alessi has produced a witty kitchen bibelot from nearly every item of houseware. Now it has got around to the lowly bottle opener. Perhaps inspired by a mental picture of millions of infantilized men sucking on beer bottles as they watch football (or soccer) on TV, Morozzi used the baby rattle as a model, producing a jumbo-size plastic opener that is both playful and elegant. It comes in black and white and -- yes -- blue and pink...
...Your item ''Larry the Shrinking Violet'' ((Chronicles, Nov. 29)) noted that I had dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a ''cozy white warm-up outfit,'' as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could...
...result of this combination is something similar to the feeling Darnielle described when introducing the fifth item on his set-list (“Old College Try,” from “Tallahassee”): “A cross-section of really really wanting the person you once loved to die… and suddenly thinking that they look totally hot in this type of weather...
...Dining with Kim Jong Il A verbatim item quoted an excerpt from Chris Patten's new book in which he recounted a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il [Oct. 17]. Patten, former Hong Kong Governor and European Union Commissioner for External Affairs, wrote, "We banqueted with Kim and a group of grumpy old men, with faces like Christmas walnuts ... We were served much better burgundy than we would have drunk in Brussels. Outside, the people starved." It is unfair to criticize Kim for indulging in excesses while the poor of his country starved since, with the exception...