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...Chop and Oyster House in Seattle. Accepting a $100,000 commission from the restaurant's owners, Pop Artist LeRoy Neiman had begun the painting a year ago, but then somehow found himself running low on inspiration. McRory's spurred him on by sweetening the terms with 64 oz. of gold at a time when the precious metal was selling for $396 per oz. Suitably reinspired, Neiman rushed to completion his impression of a busy day at the bar, replete with a piper skirling among the clientele. Said Neiman modestly: "They got a bargain, because I think...
...film-book writers, the next few years will determine whether they are working in Ghastlyville or Oz. No matter what transpires, one group will never suffer: the producers. If fresh material ever runs out, they need only heed the advice offered by Will Rogers half a century ago: "If the movies want to advance, all they have to do is not get new stories but do the old ones over-as they were written...
David L. Halberstam '55 once called New Hampshire the "land of journalist overkill," and few would disagree. For politicians, pundits and mere voters groping for some tangible indication of which would-be Wizard of Oz to follow down the yellow brick road to the White House, New Hampshire fills a psychological void. New Hampshire takes the vague preconceptions and sets them in bold type; where conflicting polls lose meaning, the neat, unchanging rows of figures give everyone something to latch on to as gospel. "The people have spoken, the fools...
Tofu, or bean curd, a custard-like cake made from curdled soybean milk, was a favorite of Taoist priests in ancient China. Now Americans are learning to use the nearly tasteless curd (flavoring must be added) to replace cheese in cheesecake and meat in burgers. A 4-oz. serving of tofu has nearly as much protein as an equal amount of hamburger but fewer calories (150 vs. 237) and no cholesterol. At 99? per lb., it is also cheaper. One large supplier, the New England Soy Dairy, Inc. of Greenfield, Mass., peddled 300 to 500 lbs. of curd a week...
With gold selling these days at roughly $667 per oz., the tub has become a bonanza. It is now worth $2.5 million, and the number of customers has jumped 50% since gold prices surged in mid-1979. About half the 100,000 guests who go to the hotel every year take the plunge. Today they are each soaked for $20, and the photographs-in color-are $8 a shot...