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...consequence, buffalo dominate the state. Buffalo rugs adorn hotel lobbies, buffalo steaks appear on menus, buffalo experts expound theories of the rise and decline of buffalo and buffalo chips are used as fire starters...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Buffalo Galore | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

...imaginary nut letters from folks eager to win a "National Fundament of the Arts" grant. The theme, "America, Where Have You Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala, Fla., urge a macrame snood over the entire building, and a Los Angeles atheist knows exactly what he doesn't want: depictions of Pilgrims on their knees, or any ethnically mixed group gazing heavenward. Our Founding Fathers were, he argues, "Europe's overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Folks: WHITE PEOPLE by Allan Gurganus | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Have you heard the one about the two comedy networks that decided to merge? It goes like this: for nine months now, two competing cable channels have been offering rival menus of round-the-clock comedy. On one side of the TV dial is the Comedy Channel, run by Time Warner subsidiary HBO. On the other side is HA! the TV Comedy Network, owned by Viacom International, which also operates MTV. The problem: both channels are losing money. Hoping that two can laugh as cheaply as one, the jousting jokesters disclosed last week that they would merge to form Comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLE TV: More Yuks for Their Bucks | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Best New Dining Concept One of the earliest harbingers of economic recession wasn't longer lines at soup kitchens. It was the sight of trendy restaurants frantically begging for new customers by lowering prices, simplifying menus and advertising themselves as -- code words of the '90s -- cafes, grills, bistros or trattorias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of Food | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

Priciest Slab of Cholesterol Japan's richly marbled Kobe beef, from beer-fed cattle, was featured for the first time on the menus of a few U.S. restaurants. For $100 or so, you could order an inch-high steak weighing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of Food | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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