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With $100,000, the man pur- chased two trucks full of medical supplies andsent them to Bosnia, Fine said...
...tickets. Steamboat gives children under twelve free lodging, rental equipment and lift tickets. Still, the cost for two parents and two children spending seven nights at Steamboat comes to the kind of money most families go to the bank for: $2,144, not including meals or drinks, or the pur chase of any equipment. What no one in the ski biz knows is whether enough families will make the sacrifices necessary to afford such bargains. If not, does any one make safety bindings to protect ski-resort corporations from out-of-control, twisting falls...
...downing of an unarmed airliner by the U.S.S.R. emphasizes the degree of the Soviet paranoia and the folly of pur placing provocative first-strike Pershing and cruise missiles on its borders. A situation will be created involving nuclear weapons that will threaten millions of lives. Only by establishing better relations and easing tensions with the U.S.S.R. will we avoid more air tragedies and the ultimate catastrophe, World...
...purity to boggle the taste buds: liqueur-based delicacies, a dozen variations on chocolate and elusive essences like cantaloupe. Not to mention A1 Gelato's trompe l'oeil "spaghetti," made of Marsala-laced, eggy zabaglione ice cream run through a spaghetti press and topped with chocolate meatballs, puréed strawberries for the tomato effect and a sprinkling of grated coconut to resemble Parmesan cheese. Who needs pasta...
...show has grown slicker, Director Eytchison points out, "we've done Matisse and Picasso. Still, after you've tried it, you have to ask yourself what the point of the whole pageant is. After all,, pur purpose is to provide an enjoyable evening of theater." While many works of art meet Laguna's requirements in terms of style and content, they prove technically impossible to reproduce. For example, Eytchison has found that Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings have too much distance between figures in foreground and background for realistic reproduction: "In order to do a cancan scene...