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...show offers some factoids about prairie life (makeup was considered immoral), but it's truly about 21st century society. The women adjust to an un-p.c. life of cooking and cleaning for their newly Marlboro-ized men. "The whole place is like a man's playground," one woman says. And a surprisingly moving epilogue follows the families' re-entry into mall-and-microwave life. Their conclusion--that we're alienated from our work and nature--is trite but hard earned. Does that mean they end up swearing off fast food and video games? Dream on, Pilgrim. --By James Poniewozik
...short, plump Asian man zips up his brown leather coat, looks up and down Chinatown’s Beach St., stomps out the end of his Marlboro Red on the cold pavement and hops onto the small bus. The bus, labeled with vibrant Chinese characters proclaiming “Travel to New York,” has slowly filled with a mixture of Chinese young people gabbing away in Mandarin on their cell phones and students looking forward to a four-hour interstate journey. This is “go” time for the 11:30 p.m. Chinatown shuttle...
...films and won Indian cinema's highest honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, in 1989; in Bombay. Kumar starred in mega-hits such as Achhut Kanya and Jewel Thief (see eulogy). DIED. DON TENNANT, 79, the creative advertising whiz who conceived Kellogg's lovable Tony the Tiger, dreamed up the Marlboro Man concept and composed such jingles as Pillsbury's Nothing says lovin' like something from the oven; in Chicago...
...keen nose for commerce--to get on the Oprah Winfrey Show to hawk his books. Success! MATTIE STEPANEK, 11, got all his wishes and then one: a contract from Hyperion for three books to join his best-selling volumes Heartsongs and Journey Through Heartsongs. Stepanek, of Upper Marlboro, Md., has a rare form of muscular dystrophy that keeps him on a ventilator; the disease killed his two brothers and sister. His mother also has MD. Mattie showed his gift for poetry early on--at age 3. Although he almost died this summer, he has too many plans to dwell...
...terrace tops and simply follow it. By switching course no more than half a dozen times, walkers should be able to construct a largely flat circuit through layered rice and tobacco fields, along steep riverbanks and past villages set in the rolling, verdant landscape. This is true Marlboro Country. The red and white murals of cigarette packs painted on the sides of drying towers show where farmers dream of sending their truck-wheel-sized leaves. Tobacco may be a pernicious business, but here at its roots, as villagers strip plants and carry off stacks of leaves on their heads...