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...President insists he's close. And there are a handful of holdout Republicans ready to get aboard ? if Clinton will scratch their backs on some overseas abortion issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop the Fight! | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

TOXIC TEA? Kombucha tea, touted as a health tonic, may cause dizziness, nausea or even liver damage. Commercial brands are fine. The problem is with teas made from scratch--which requires fermenting Kombucha mushrooms at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...find it very sad that middle-class America is filled with Martha wannabes. It is not Ms. Stewart's business acumen, independence or insistence on quality that is being emulated. Women are becoming slaves to style and obsessive do-it-from-scratch projects. Somehow interior design has become confused with having an interior life. KAREN SAGE-STOCKWELL Danville, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1997 | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...Europa, she made a character's foreskin a consistent source of laughs--resist any firm allegiance to an inherited script. "For me it is more playful to make somebody else's material," she affirms; it allows her to "concentrate on the interpretation more [than] having to create everything from scratch...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ms. Holland Goes 19th C | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

Those who find it difficult to subtract four-digit numbers may wish to bring a calculator, or at least scratch paper, to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition "Picasso: the Early Years." Even easier, however, is to eavesdrop as visitors whisper to each other while subtracting 1881, the year of Picasso's birth, from the date of a painting's execution. The solutions are often unbelievably small...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portrait of a Cubist as a Young Man | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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