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Many hotels allowed the newly homeless, or those too frightened to stay in their insecure buildings, to camp out in their lobbies. At the darkened Stanford Court, complimentary caviar and smoked salmon were served by candlelight. The motive was not mere generosity: the comestibles would have spoiled without refrigeration. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Its surface realism notwithstanding, this movie must be read symbolically, especially since it is presented as a dream that overtakes Eriksson years later, when he encounters a young Oriental woman on a train who reminds him of the long-ago victim. In the dream, Meserve -- arrogant, competent, headlong (in short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vice And Victims in Viet Nam | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

A number of influences glow in Nakashima's work. His admiration for New England rustic is evident in slab coffee tables that are halved cherry and walnut logs. He interprets Shaker design in a 10-ft.-long bench made from a single plank of black walnut set with a spidery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Something Of a Druid | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

A 5-ft. 8-in. native of Hoboken, N.J., but a resident of Placentia, Calif., Chang is supervised on tour (17 months, $533,000) by his mother Betty, who, like her husband Joe, is a chemist. She prefers the chemists' word stabilized, saying, "I think that I stabilize him. I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Beginning with Alice Waters, the first female chef to gain national renown -- in 1971 after opening Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where she gives a light, decorative California interpretation to the dishes of Provence and Italy -- the best women chefs have stayed away from traditional mamma fare. Newcomer Caprial Pence combines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: When Women Man the Stockpots | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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