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...Alice Waters was sent off to a party wearing a radish bracelet, strawberry necklace and lettuce-leaf skirt assembled from her parents' Victory garden. It was the beginning of a lifetime of involvement with fresh foods. Chez Panisse, the restaurant she opened in Berkeley, Calif., in 1971, ranks among the best in the country. As a chef and food activist, she "may be the most influential figure in the past 30 years of the American kitchen," says Gourmet magazine. Waters, 61, talked with TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about why consuming and appreciating natural foods is so important...
...satisfied? Listening to each question, Fitzgerald leaned forward, chin tilted up, as if he were eager to help. Then, as he always has, he politely declined to elaborate, citing legal constraints. "You're reading tea leaves. Don't," he advised. "I don't draw a very good tea leaf...
DIED. LEN DRESSLAR, 80, booming voice behind advertising's leaf-clad Jolly Green Giant, the Rice Krispies' Snap and other pitchmen; in Palm Springs, Calif. The jazz baritone often joked that his tuneful rendition of the vegetable-peddling giant's "Ho, ho, ho!" put his two daughters through college...
...many people, the path to closet mania starts innocently. Wanting extra space in their bedroom for exercise equipment or a home office, they go to a store or leaf through a catalog. But as soon as they see all the available goodies, the reorganizing bug spreads. "Every time we install a valet rod, they come back and want two or three more," says Kristina Ferrigan of Closets.com And once you've done one closet, how can you ignore the others...
...also in part an outgrowth of earlier developments in the wider art world, among them conceptual art, performance art and even earthworks, all of which took art out of the galleries and museums and, not incidentally, validated perishable artistic gestures--the performance preserved only on video, the leaf sculpture that crumbles in the breeze. A lot of street art lasts only a few months before it succumbs to the elements, is covered over by other works or is taken away ("buffed" is the term). "I've had dogs s___ on my work," says Leon Reid, a.k.a. Darius Jones...