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...grandmother for money. After she died in 1988, Mark lived off the inheritance. My mother worried about him a little, his being young, motherless and often drunk. She invited him out to Cape Cod one summer; I remember he taught me to do a "Walk the Dog" with a yo-yo. Otherwise, the visit was a bust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...like cloying affectation masquerading as insight, then you will enjoy the much hyped Bridget Jones's Diary. The alter ego of London journalist Helen Fielding, Bridget is a bundle of frail funk, preoccupied by short skirts, long nails and yo-yo dieting. She has mother issues, toxic-married-men issues, smoking issues and VCR-programming issues. She affects irony, so you know she is deadly serious about her postfeminist problems--find a gym, find a guy, find a low-cal chocolate. If only she would find a life. And a brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Isn't THAT the Truth? | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

Tcherepnin's students included a number of prominent musicians including cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and violinist Lynn Chang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Memoriam | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...batiks, Native American pottery, weavings and watercolors. Overnight at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, there's a campus tour and ample opportunity to attend student and faculty performances. You may also get to hear one of the international artists who play at Interlochen each summer (past performers include Yo-Yo Ma, Marvin Hamlisch and Itzhak Perlman). The last night of the trip is spent at the Crystal Mountain Resort, a luxury property adjacent to Michigan Legacy Art Park, a 30-acre sculpture gallery actually built into the forest. Bike-tour rates are $809 a person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedal Pushers | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...happy diners free reign, red matte walls create an atmosphere that is almost too trendy for traditional Boston. The kitchen is open, accented by classy copper heating lamps. The wrought iron chandeliers, with yellow lanterns in place of bulbs, hang like copies of Aleksandr Rodchenko's Spatial Constructions. Apparently, Yo-Yo Ma et al are satisfied with Anago's sexy new image. However, with its arrival onto the scene, the prices have gone up and the quality of the food has gone down; Anago is trying too hard to reconcile profile with taste...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: hoppin | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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