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...France. I have often wondered just how to butterfly a leg of lamb when, at the last moment, I have had to settle for the whole leg. Eight quick steps, each with its own picture, show how to debone the thing, and then it's an easy, two-step process to lay open the fillet so that it's ready for the grill. For the more adventurous, the book teaches the construction of a crown roast of lamb, which is fashioned from two racks of lamb, bent round and tied. A simple roasting recipe features the typical lamb seasonings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond The Perfect Pot Roast | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh two-step that swept across Europe last year after being imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos, lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Hurricane Of Hype | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...album, she seemed to signal a fresh trail for rock. But uncertainty and self-destruction crowded close. An equivocal second album was followed by an enterprising third and diminishing commercial returns. Confusion enveloped her, and Jones seemed to lunge toward the flash point. Then she pulled back, in a two-step away from the brink, consolidating and reconsidering her work. With personal turmoil put in perspective, Jones produced a new life and a new record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickie Lee Jones: She's Back | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...worried that Japan will try to hide its financing of projects that damage the environment. One method would be to make unrestricted loans to foreign banks. The banks could then lend money to controversial projects, but Japan would not be blamed. One fear is that Japan will use such "two-step" loans to fund a major road that would open up the western Amazon to logging. Says Alex Hittle, international coordinator of | Friends of the Earth, U.S.: "It's in general loans that disturbing things might be lurking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Putting The Heat on Japan | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Evil Empire" is yet another song sunk by ridiculous lyrics. One might guess from the title that Jackson is going to take a swipe at Reagan-style reactionism, but the theme turns out to rather indistinguishable. The music, however--a sort of country two-step, replete with fretless bass--is catchy...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: Great Balls of Fire | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

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