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This has been a banner year for food lovers. Ever more bizarre victuals found their way to specialty grocery stores, and a frenzy of new restaurants swept across the land. The cooking of the Southwest began to eclipse Cajun fare as our high-status regional cuisine--small wonder, when the gumbos, jambalayas and red beans of Louisiana became overworked into clichés. Its most overrated specialty, blackened redfish, is a culinary travesty. Scorched spices encrust the fish and mask its delicate flavor. There were contradictions, too, as Americans pumped iron to stay thin, then tried to maintain status by eating...
...wonder the younger generation looks upon Shenzhen as the land of opportunity. Take Chen Li and her husband Wu Nianxing. Until a few months ago, Chen, 25, taught at a language institute and Wu, 27, worked as an industrial designer in the Hunan city of Changsha. Unhappy with their prospects, they began taking seriously stories about Shenzhen, about the wealth of jobs, high salaries and ample living quarters. Wu traveled 450 miles by train to Shenzhen and quickly found a job in an electronics plant. His wife, fluent in English, was hired by the same company as an interpreter. This...
Bystanders stared in wonder last summer as the fleet of 20 midnight-blue Cadillacs arrived in downtown Peking amid the clutter of buses and bicycles. The limousines, complete with built-in bars and TV sets, were the newest showpiece of an enterprise that is as remarkable in China as the luxury cars. Known as China International Trust and Investment Corporation, the state-owned firm woos foreign investors with a combination of savvy, sizzle and shrewd business skill. Said CITIC Chairman Rong Yiren, as he took delivery of the first Cadillacs to be acquired by a Chinese organization since the Communists...
...first flight on the airline, an orderly if spartan pre-Thanksgiving round trip between People's headquarters at Newark International Airport and Jacksonville. "Playing a typical customer, I even phoned to make my own reservation, which has been a notoriously difficult part of getting on People Express," says Alexander. "Wonder of wonders, thanks to their new reservation system, I got through on my first...
...donated for the purpose by the Shubert Organization. Among the writers who appeared were Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, William Styron, John Updike, Woody Allen and Mailer himself, who agreed to debate sometime Archrival Gore Vidal. Indeed, the Vidal-Mailer matchup was a major draw for the series, and no wonder: their previous encounters have been dramatic, head-butting and drink-throwing affairs. But the latest showdown was disappointing. "A meeting between two toothless tigers," Mailer called...