Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COLOR PHOTO: MARK PETERSON--SABA FOR TIME THE BEAT GOES ON: Despite Bratton's tough policies, some community patrol officers, like John Cayenne of Brooklyn's 77th Precinct, still have a soft touch [Police officer John Cayenne with children...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin named Yevgeny Primakov, a specialist in Middle Eastern affairs and head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, as the country's new foreign minister. In contrast to Andrei Kozyrev, ousted amidst charges from parliament of being too soft toward the West, Primakov is expected to turn the focus of Russia's foreign policy toward the Middle East and the former Soviet republics. "It's clear that Yeltsin wanted to find a successor who would not appear to be pro-Western," says Moscow bureau chief John Kohan. "Since Zhirinovsky and his supporters have put the nationalist...
...LAVISH DINNER THAT CHEF John Folse prepared for a private party of Procter & Gamble executives tasted rich enough to make a cardiologist apoplectic. Folse, owner of the celebrated Lafitte's Landing restaurant near Baton Rouge, served thick seafood gumbo, sauteed herb-encrusted duck breast, sauteed speckled trout, fried soft-shell crawfish, salad with vinaigrette dressing and--for those who had room left for it--Mardi Gras cake. Every dish was prepared the old-fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That...
...also reflected in the pitcher, whose basin gathers beneath its rim an exquisitely ordered mosaic of reflections from the tabletop. And then there is the white cotton that drapes her head and shoulders, whose every starched plane and level of translucency is observed, light filtering through a small, soft structure that's as satisfying as one of Cezanne's hillsides...
...constitute a trend. Last year's trend was hard-boiled women detectives, by such hard-boiled women writers as Carol O'Connell (Mallory's Oracle) and Patricia Cornwell (The Body Farm). The new trend is, let's see (flip, flip), hard-boiled women, right, but (flip, flip) written by soft-to-medium-boiled...