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...Executive Boulevard, a more exciting menu is on call. Instead of crunching numbers, a group of men and women crunch on praline, and instead of computer screens, they stare into oven windows. A thin figure in a tall toque waves a blade. "All the time be rocking the knife," he says with a Germanic accent to an intent group of onlookers. "Never slice almonds. Rock, rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Degree in Desserts | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Kumin sculptures chocolate roses with the same passionate care that he bestows on his real garden in nearby Brewster. First he rolls a cone of solid chocolate. Then, with a few deft moves of what looks like an artist's palette knife, he shapes petals from modeling chocolate. His large fingers gently wrap the leaves around the cone and suddenly a perfect rendition of a rosebud glistens in chocolate. As the students move to their own tables to practice, Kumin takes a short break for a cigarette in his tiny office. "Teaching is wonderful," he says, "but soon I need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: A Degree in Desserts | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...KNIFE (PBS, July 20, 9 p.m. on most stations). An unhappy movie star (Peter Gallagher) struggles against the manipulations of a Machiavellian studio boss in Clifford Odets' sharp-edged 1949 drama about Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 25, 1988 | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

...resting one hand menacingy on his gun. Frisking the hoboes, the lawman squinted in disbelief: their driver's licenses bore upscale California addresses in West Los Angeles, Marin County and Palm Springs. "Beverly Glen Boulevard?" the policeman demanded of one robust tramp wearing suspenders and carrying a Swiss army knife. "What is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoboes From High-Rent Districts | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...become seriously depressed for months. They undergo mercurial mood swings, lose their appetite and go sleepless for nights on end. Plagued by thoughts of ; suicide or fantasies of killing their baby by dropping it down the stairs, burying it in the backyard or cutting it up with a kitchen knife. "These are invasive, terrifying ideas that can drive them crazy," says Psychiatrist Ricardo Fernandez, of Princeton, N.J. "A lot of women have a tremendous amount of guilt and shame because of these thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Mothers Kill Their Babies | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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