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THIS SUMMER I paid $2 to tour a restored plantation in Atlanta. White girls in puffy pastel hoop skirts fluttered around the giant Master's mansion, answering questions about the European art and furnishings...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Not Yet Gone With the Wind | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

Interiors have also been updated. Instead of the traditional dark teak, many modern designers prefer the pale look of ash and pastel fabrics to lighten below-deck cabins. They often pad walls with Ultrasuede or leather for sound control. Denison's boatyard allows customers to supervise every detail right up to the track lighting. Bannenberg even designs every spoon, every ashtray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Life Afloat: Superduper Yachts | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...downed Cessna lying wrecked in the tropical greenery come eerie blinks of emergency lights, revealing the mock skeleton of a pilot. Adventurers gather, some wearing the suits of corporate strivers, others in guerrilla battle dress or the Panama hats of dissolute plantation owners. But as waiters serve frosty pastel drinks, yam chips and shrimp fritters, it is obvious this is no jungle clearing, no stage set for The Emperor Jones. It is the garden of Bananas, a new, good Brazilian-style hot spot in Manhattan that is cashing in on the nationwide fad for tropical restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: It's A Tropical Heat Wave | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...Frog features an Orientalized Continental menu in a quiet, pastel postmodern setting. Lunch features a Japanese bento, a box with four compartments, containing a choice of such intriguing morsels as grilled shrimp, grilled duck breast, crunchy Japanese-style salads and rice. Among simpler dishes, the swordfish with lemon-thyme butter is flawless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Filling Up in Philadelphia | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...Eisenman. The Moore buildings at Tegel are, as his critics have charged, Disney-like, a mite overeager to please. But Tegel is a resort town; the complex was meant to be a playful place, and it is easy to play along with Moore's California-cum-German-romantic palette (pastel peach and blue), the dormers and gables that crop up without warning, the classicized little plazas and passageways. Two other romantic American architects, Robert Stern and Stanley Tigerman, have designed wildly baroque villas to be built next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Rebuilding Berlin - Yet Again | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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