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...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudofacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...younger breed of breadmaker is bringing an almost fanatical dedication to baking. Many of these bakers are importing special stone-lined ovens, which cost up to $80,000, from France. Helmut Goetting, who holds a Ph.D. in geology, and Paul Fitzpatrick, a chemist, built a wood-burning stove and hired a German Backermeister for their Wood-Fire Bakery in Mountain View, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Bread Goes Upper Crust | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...Administration's warm words came with a last-minute accord in which Tokyo pledged to open the Japanese market to increased imports of U.S. wood products. That issue was the last of three conflicts that forced the Administration last year to cite Japan under the so-called Super 301 provision of the 1988 trade law. In the other two categories, Tokyo agreed to buy more U.S. supercomputers and satellites. The Administration has won similar concessions from Brazil, another of the three countries named on last year's hit list; only India will be named again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing On Warm Trade Winds | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Cult Hero Gets His Due | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...burly leader of the Lithuanian Communist Party offered a gloom-and-doom scenario of what lay ahead for the breakaway Baltic republic in the aftermath of President Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to cut back drastically on oil and gas shipments. "Understand me correctly," said Brazauskas, leaning on the blond wood lectern. "I have never tried to frighten anyone or spread panic. We have to speak about things as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Running Out Of Gas? | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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