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...Almost anyone will eat vanilla ice cream. But damn it, people get turned on by pistachio and butter pecan...
That is a rather unusual creed for a real estate developer. Butter-pecan houses? But Emil Hanslin, a weather-beaten, chain-smoking dynamo of 52, is an unusual developer. An early proponent of cluster housing, he is now experimenting with a new way to preserve open space. Says he: "It's a very simple thing but a big idea. The buyer buys the whole acre, but he gives up part of his land to the community. That makes him feel like the Rockefellers, creating a system of space that he can enjoy and others can enjoy...
George Wallace and his pretty wife, Cornelia, make for some lively domestic dialogue on the campaign trail. "Get on over there and get me a pecan pie," said George at a roadside restaurant, and she did. But later, Cornelia evened it up when a reporter asked her if she makes political speeches. "No," she replied, "and if I ever do, I'll make them for myself-not anybody else." At another stop, Cornelia was telling how George's suits are given to him by a clothing company. Glowering, George denied wearing free suits. Cornelia insisted that...
...Butter Pecan...
...agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds of things dieters like Oldenburg himself try to avoid: a wedge of pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements of food, they are designed more to entice than to be eaten. An Oldenburg baked...