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...life," Black sticks close to her home above Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive. Along with the cultivated eccentricities of the public personality, she has the usual movie star's catalogue of modest pleasures ready for the press and her public. She fixes Chinese dinners in a wok, maintains a menagerie of six cats, and composes country-and-western tunes. (She sings three of her songs in Robert Altman's upcoming C & W pageant Nashville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Boom in Black | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...wizard of the wok is an entrepreneuse of major proportions. Her 400-seat restaurant overlooking the Charles River grosses $1,000,000 a year; a second Joyce Chen's will open next month, also in Cambridge. She distributes her own line of Chinese cookware, retailed through such outlets as New York City's Abercrombie & Fitch, St. Louis' Famous-Barr and Boston's Jordan Marsh. More than 70,000 copies of The Joyce Chen Cook Book have been sold since it first appeared a decade ago. Mrs. Chen performs on her own Julia Child-style television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Fortune's Cookie | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...humble servant of the forces of history and for all the imperfection of the human material he had to wok with, for all the disappointments of the last years, the struggle to build a new society, a new world, would go on after he was gone...

Author: By Beth Edelmann, | Title: The Party, Without Pain | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...Peter Bent threw suspicion on the progress of the project when it announced late last wok that it is going ahead with plans of its own for a $1.5 million expansion program. The Hospital's new wing, to be completed by next fall, will include 39 private patients' rooms and advanced X-ray equipment...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Hospital Director Says Medical Plan On Time | 1/9/1962 | See Source »

...wok up skriming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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