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...directly in the antitech 1960s. An outsize salad bowl, meticulously turned from a single chunk of California black walnut by Bob Stocksdale, is notable for its revelation of the wood's grain. A fiddleback, hard-rock-maple- and-ebony rocking chair, a fortunate meeting of Copenhagen and Big Sur by California Master Craftsman Sam Maloof, invites the viewer to experience the best of contemporary artifacts while sitting down in comfort. Maloof, 70, bristles at new developments. Younger artisans, he said during a pre-opening tour of the museum, "don't seem to have any ideas. They work over a piece...
...Marcos supporters in Manila three weeks ago, was confronted with another potentially dangerous crisis. The motives behind last week's snatchings were muddled in the curious combination of banditry and political activism that has turned kidnaping into a minor industry in the predominantly Muslim province of Lanao del Sur in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
...Aquino had ignored the Muslim separatist problem in Mindanao. Pushed into action, she ordered the army to "settle once and for all Lanao's problem of warlordism." The warlord that Aquino apparently had in mind was Ali Dimaporo, a Marcos loyalist who was dismissed as Governor of Lanao del Sur after Aquino took power and who, according to intelligence reports, commanded the loyalties of the kidnapers. Dimaporo denied his involvement...
...square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little Sur" but have no street addresses. The mayor would like to guard this ambience even more vigorously; she is proud of the fact that during her two terms the business district has actually got smaller...
...Governor Bob Kerrey, 42, whom she had met while making Terms of Endearment. Last week she was in the news again, after marrying Actor Timothy Hutton, to the surprise of almost everyone except, of course, Hutton, plus 25 relatives and close friends who attended the Jewish ceremony at Big Sur, Calif., overlooking the Pacific. Though Winger, 30, and Hutton, 25, had known each other for a couple of years, things got serious four or five months ago. The day after the wedding, the two flew to Charleston, S.C., where Hutton is beginning a new film, appropriately called Made in Heaven...