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This year's tourney looks to draw a similarly talented field, and will give the Cantabs a heavy dose of stiff national competition

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Getting Better and Better | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...elegant setting, The Seasons may be Boston's best. Overlooking Faneuil Hall Marketplace in the Bostonian Hotel, it also offers an incomparable selection of American wines. Rarities in the new Charles Hotel at Harvard Square offers equally innovative continental fare with impeccable service. Both establishments may face some stiff competition from another newcomer, Le Marquis de Lafayette at Lafayette Place, whose wunderkind chef should soon become the talk of the town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Supper | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Given the ingenuity America seems to inspire in its immigrants, the newcomers may give Aoki stiff competition. How long can it be before Benihana is joined by chains with names such as Tacorama, the Piteria, Dim-summery and even Tofusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: International Pot Luck Variety Spices the Country's Rich Culinary Life | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...stain the stiff dishonoured shroud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Singing Within the Bloody Wood | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...just a regular Joe, see, just a working stiff with a missus who likes her fiction cheap. She doesn't have her nose stuck in a thriller, she's not happy. So one day she sees an ad for a mystery weekend. You go to some dive and they fake a murder and you try to solve the case. A snap, she says to me, a downhill roll. She should live so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York State: Who Poisoned the Pudding? | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

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