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...swamp Cajun" with the motor boat; Chantelle's beau Sugar (Vondie Curtis-Hall), whose pleasure in women is a contagious delight; Kim (Sheila Kelley) and Nina (Nancy Mette), two soap-opera actresses who give zest and drama to any line reading; May-Alice's gay, weary old friend Reeves (Leo Burmester), who chats about "homoerotic delftware" that bears the likenesses of "little Dutch boys in compromising positions." Reeves sells homes now. "Real estate," he muses. "What our dreams come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Dreams Come To | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Stephanian's style could best be described as surly service with a scowl, yet his demeanor was a significant part of the Tommy's experience. Raffi S. Bezjian, who owns Leo's Place with his brother, Richard, worked at Tommy's when he first came to the States from Armenia...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Tommy's Lunch: Dead at the Age of 34 | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

directed by Leo Cabranes-Grant...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Paying Dues To See a Good Play | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those by Lee Lorenz, Danny Shanahan and Leo Cullum ('This is my husband, Greg, and Greg's jacket from a previous marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Oct. 12, 1992 | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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