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...settle for plain when you can get it flavored? Enid Stettner's Wild Thymes, of Medussa, N.Y., bottles 25 different kinds of herb and fruit vinegars, including such exotica as Opal basil, hot pepper and blueberry. (The labels, happily, offer some clues on culinary...
...short supply. Within California, farmers have become alarmed at the possibility that the water they need for irrigation may be diverted to the cities. Says John Pierre Menvielle, a third-generation farmer in Calexico, on the southern edge of the Imperial Valley: "People in Los Angeles and the coastal plain say, 'You guys are wasting water. We ought to get it from you.' They're overbuilding, they're out of control. They want us to put limits on what we're doing. Where's their limits...
...country with the world's most renowned phone system, plain old breakdowns aren't supposed to happen. But lately America has been coming unhooked. The most recent epidemic began on June 26, when 6.3 million customers in Washington, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia lost service for up to eight hours. The same day, phone circuits went haywire in two Southern California area codes. Then, last week, 1 million Bell of Pennsylvania customers temporarily lost service, as did dialers in San Francisco. The scourge of breakdowns was eerily reminiscent of the January 1990 collapse of AT&T's long- distance system...
...loyalty to subordinates. But there is another side to Bush that emerges, albeit reluctantly, when he thinks the national interest is being harmed. It was Bush, as Republican National Committee chairman back in the summer of 1974, who looked across the Cabinet table at Richard Nixon and made it plain that he ought to resign for the good of the country. It was Bush, as Vice President, who summoned Regan to his office in 1987 and put the final pressure on him to leave, enduring Regan's tirade but never yielding...
...carelessly considered one. "It was a goal to make that resonate throughout the film," according to Davis. It does, and it has a transforming effect on Thelma & Louise. It lifts it beyond the reach of gags like columnist Ellen Goodman's characterization of it as "a PMS movie, plain and simple." More important, it lifts it beyond the effective range of ideologically oriented criticism. "The violence I liked, in a way," says Sarandon, "because it is not premeditated. It is primal, and it doesn't solve anything...