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As Secretary of State James Baker has said, "No cliche does Gorbachev justice. To say he is a piece of work is an understatement." Adds Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming: "I once told Gorbachev that he was a no- bullshit kind of guy, and he replied that he knew...
As an international figure, Gorbachev is a world-class leader -- with no one else in his class. But unless he can fix the Soviet economy, he might well have trouble winning a free election. If his own people's standard of living continues to deteriorate, Gorbachev may face the disagreeable...
-- Wolf Biermann, East German poet and protest singer who was stripped of his citizenship in 1976 while on tour in West Germany. An idealistic socialist, he returned to his country in December.
Most Overdue Liberation. Shattering the traditional male domination of serious restaurant cooking, an innovative crew of distaff chefs -- among them the pioneering Alice Waters of Berkeley's Chez Panisse, Anne Rosenzweig of Manhattan's Arcadia and Susan Spicer of New Orleans' the Bistro at Maison de Ville -- proved that wearing...
The Ersatz Ascendancy. From Japan came salty, rubbery surimi, a processed fish paste that appeared on countless menus under the guise of lobster and crab legs. In the interest of dietary moderation, Americans during the '80s consumed an astonishing variety of re-engineered foods and beverages, including low-cal salad...