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...first floor is a younger, more stylish jet-set crowd that likes to munch on oysters ($14-21) and lobster pizza ($25) by the bar. House cocktails include $12 Ginger Cosmos and “Bajitos” (Mojitos with a basil twist). The upstairs restaurant is where Boston’s older elite dines on Porcini Crusted Sea Scallops ($16) and Organic Amish Free-Range Chicken...
...consumers. Color televisions are on sale for $680, along with locally manufactured refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, even keyboard organs. With prosperity has come more time for leisure. In one factory auditorium, an eight-piece orchestra plays nightly, and couples tentatively attempt fox-trots, rumbas, two-steps, even the twist. Says one disbelieving onlooker: "You could not imagine such a thing as this only a couple of years ago. These people were in cell meetings." --By Spencer Davidson. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Chongqing
...here is the wonderful twist. Britain's dramatic artists have often found their strength in cataloging their kingdom's weaknesses. Now a new generation is raising its collective voice to sing the blahs. This familiar tune was heard in the late 1970s in stage and television drama; it took only a few years for graduates of those media to make their mark in film. Three provocative examples from this year's crop: Wetherby, written and directed by David Hare of the BBC and the National Theater; Dance with a Stranger, written by Playwright Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey...
...Ronald Reagan, the road to his first meeting with a Soviet leader has been bumpy and twisting. Driven by a lifelong visceral anti-Communism, he campaigned for the White House in 1980 by charging that dtente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted...
...real twist, however, came when the umpires also rewarded Brown with a trip to the plate from third—technically, a violation of the rules...