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...menus do more than just keep customers coming back. (With more than $1 billion in sales from 105 restaurants in 2005, the Cheesecake Factory is by far the most productive "casual-dining" chain in the country, generating $970 for every square foot of restaurant space.) Like an annual family portrait, every new Cheesecake Factory menu holds up a mirror to the American palate, revealing how it has grown and changed. When Vietnamese summer rolls appear alongside buffalo wings, "it shows the customers that those items are mainstream," says Karen Cathey, incoming chair of the American Institute of Wine and Food...
DIED. Arnold Newman, 88, who snapped 49˘ portraits before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems--such as the 1959 portrait of master builder Robert Moses, above, a giant against the Manhattan skyline that he helped to shape--that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little...
...When you’ve set your sights on something like that, other things—however minor or major—seem much less important.”FACT MORE STRIKING THAN FICTIONWhile the history she studies is patchy, Elkins’ career is a consistent portrait of hard work. Even before her find on Kenya, she had always loved stories.“I liked to read and would be up at night with a flashlight,” says Elkins, who read historical fiction such as “Johnny Tremain.” Elkins?...
...Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Gilmour has already written monumental biographies of two of the most controversial figures of the Raj?the writer Rudyard Kipling and the viceroy Lord Curzon. His latest work aims to rebut the revisionist attacks and provide a more flattering group portrait of the men who ruled...
...Gilmour is out to redeem the ICS, and the portrait that emerges in his book is of a bureaucracy that was as efficient, fair-minded and honest as its reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policymakers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have...