Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them," she says. "People are terrified about losing their connections." Duffy's Law of Royal Coverage holds true even down to the restaurants, dress shops and commercial establishments that Diana frequents. "There's so much money to be made," Duffy says, "it's not worth it to a restaurateur or a designer to talk...
Thirtysomething, ABC's trendsetting drama series, has been off the air for more than a year, but the show's angst-ridden spirit will be all over the dial this fall. In Love and War, a roughhewn Manhattan journalist (Jay Thomas) falls for a prickly, recently divorced restaurateur (Susan Dey). In Hearts Afire, two aides to a U.S. Senator (John Ritter and Markie Post) get together despite clashing political views. NBC's Mad About You focuses on neurotic newlyweds living in Manhattan, while ABC's Laurie Hill adds a five-year-old child to the trials of a busy...
Other visionaries were stirring. San Francisco restaurateur Jeremiah Tower was teaching Cal-Asian cooking with Ken Frank, who opened La Toque in Los Angeles to show off his ideas. At the same time, ethnic communities were growing rapidly, especially around Los Angeles. The town of Westminster in Orange County was becoming a vast Little Saigon, eerily reminiscent of Vietnam two decades ago. Monterey Park is now the modern Chinatown, where purist chefs from Hong Kong disdain any mixed methods -- and draw their own faithful crowds...
...Washington Times last week lobbed a pre-emptive strike against Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, warning that his private life will be fair game if he decides to run for President. The main inspiration for the paper is political gadfly Robert ("Say") McIntosh, a Little Rock restaurateur known as the "Sweet Potato Pie King," who is trying to stir up trouble for Clinton in Arkansas, handing out rumormongering leaflets...
...Washington socialites Frank and Jayne Ikard are not taking their annual grand tour of Italy this year. Instead they plan to drop in on friends in Montana. Beverly Hills matron Joan Gross last week was browsing at the Price Club, a discount warehouse in nearby Inglewood, alongside an Asian restaurateur shopping for kitchen supplies and a Hispanic family buying low-price food in bulk. Said Gross: "Conspicuous consumption...