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Osadchuk's eager clientele largely represents a new class of Soviet consumer: the nouveau riche, of which she is a proud member. Better yet, call them yuccies -- young upwardly mobile Communists. Osadchuk pays herself a monthly salary of 700 rubles, or $1,120, about three times the average Soviet salary and enough for her family to live very comfortably. Says she: "We buy anything we want." Thanks to the co-op movement, employee profit sharing and other budding forms of entrepreneurship, many Soviets are suddenly earning enough money to do more than just scrape by. They are enjoying a taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Taste of the Luxe Life | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...Pita's Paso Doble, a classical love story about factory workers involved in a menage-a-trois, takes the screen at 9 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Sunday. Then, Wasps Nest, which is a satirical glimpse at the life of nouveau riche sisters and their family antics, takes over Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday night at 7 p.m., as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art on Campus | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...1920s and '30s. Like his fellow Catalan Joan Miro, Dali was deep-dyed with images of place, among them the contorted rocks and flat beaches of the coast near the town of Figueras, where he grew up, and the flowing, bizarre buildings of Barcelona's master of art nouveau, Antonio Gaudi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Salvadore Dali,The Embarrassing Genius | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...with cutting hair. At Miari Texas (the name for the red-light district in the Miari area) rows upon rows of open-fronted stores, as many as 200 in all, are lined up along a busy main road. All of them are blindingly lighted and decorated in nouveau Vegas style -- frilly pink rooms smothered in mirrors, watercolors, fish tanks and color-coordinated teddy bears. In every one of them, arrayed like bridesmaids in their matching uniforms -- traditional hanbok, wedding gowns, or dresses with the Korean flag stitched into them -- sit ten to 20 young girls, plaintively gazing out into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Anarchy By the Numbers | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...born in Mississippi, where his mother ran a boardinghouse. Many of these recipes were hers; others were suggested by Claiborne's friends and colleagues. Dishes range from soul to stylish Creole. Among them are such classics as fried chicken and beaten biscuits, as well as what Claiborne bills as "nouveau Southern," charcoal-grilled stuffed quail. Too bad he couldn't resist cliched crowd pleasers like blackened redfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down-Home Around the World | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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