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...very mellow pig," says Nora, who makes wild-chokecherry wine and bakes all her breads and biscuits with homegrown wheat and rye. "When she had her first litter, we took a bottle of wine and some glasses into the pig house to help her through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: A Family Lives in Its Own World | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...graphics are often intriguingly precarious collages, pages teeming with violently disparate visual elements. Ziggurat shapes and plant leaves appear obsessively ("I can't drop them"), and his posters are frequently fenced off with thick bars at the perimeter, frames within frames. His sensibility is Californian but more edgy than mellow. Surfaces are often made to look scratched and torn, and his palette has grown darker and richer over the past few years. "If I don't get a little resistance from clients," Manwaring says, "I don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Nouvelle Cuisine For the Eyes | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

Although Elvis is a "very innovative performer"and the performance was "more mellow than I hadthought," Epps said, "He's not Beethoven...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Costello Fans Rock in Bright | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...soup suggests the most delicate chicken and, along with earthy black mushrooms, lends savor and body to the broth. Though a bit startling to the eye, thick, dark, firmly gelatinous sea slugs are delicious at Furong in Chengdu, where they are cooked in a velvety, dark sauce that is mellow with wine and fragrant with star anise. This is a sauce that would make even paper towels palatable. Much the same can be said for the rich black- bean-and-garlic sauce that envelops chewy webs of duck feet, and the winy marinade that adds piquancy to cool, translucent slivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: From Peking To Canton | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...Brown about 600 students lives in the Wriston Quad, home of the university-built buildings that house the school's seven fraternities and two sororities. Also in the Quad are "social dorms" which are fraternities specific to Brown, often called "mellow fraternities...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place... | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

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