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...because it has great food and because it is a bistro. I like to stop at the kitchen window and talk to Andre about what we will eat. I also like not having to jump up and embrace someone every other minute, and I like seeing the mix of plain and fancy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: America's Best French Restaurant | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Although Aquino showed personal compassion for Marcos in the interest of national unity, she made it plain that she would spare no effort to reclaim the vast fortune the Marcos family is believed to have spirited out of the country over the years. She announced the creation of a Cabinet-level Presidential Commission on Good Government, headed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, 65. One of the panel's tasks will be the recovery of an estimated $2 billion in "hidden wealth" that the Marcos family has surreptitiously squirreled away in the U.S. and Switzerland. Salonga said he had already secured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Now the Hard Part | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...stew and pot pies are just too heavy and hot," Hennessey says. "People's tastes have changed. They have become more nutritionally aware, and they seem to like more plain foods...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Coucous Innovations | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

...utopian, Mies pursued rather luxurious ideas about appropriate modern style. It was his insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: His Was the Simplicity That Stuns | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...have a favorite story I like to tell about Anh that happened in the first 10 minutes after I met him," Dr. Anne C. Andorn, the psychiatrist Anh works for, recently told the Cleveland Plain Dealer...

Author: By Timothy L. Feng, | Title: Move Over Gould and Wilson, Here Comes.... | 2/21/1986 | See Source »

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