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...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...
...past five months the new President has tried to blend military orderliness with the freedoms of a democratic political system. So far, his resolve has withstood mounting economic pressures. Until 1980 Nigeria was flush with revenues from its oil industry, which at one time produced 2.3 million bbl. a day and yielded $23.4 billion a year in revenue. But the worldwide petroleum glut has left the country, which earns 95% of its foreign currency from oil exports, teetering on the edge of economic collapse. Last year Nigeria produced a daily average of 1.4 million bbl., earning $11.3 billion. Even...
Auditions generally consist of testing three essential elements: how well a student can blend in the group, hold his own part when others sing harmony, and sing solo...
...industry sits glumly waiting for the next big thing, too timid to try something new. For Hollywood, oldies are goodies. In 1985 five of the top ten moneymakers were sequels; the rest were a familiar blend of fantasy, comedy, spy and cop genres. Warns Guy McElwaine, who runs Columbia Pictures: "There's never any such thing as paying too much attention to the bottom line. If you don't make money, you aren't going to make movies." Right now, though, the sort of movie that makes money--perhaps as much as $1 billion over five years--lasts half...
Flat noodles like lasagne are forced between metal rollers that approximate the action of a rolling pin. Cut in proper lengths, pasta dries in warmers for seven hours and is then cooled before being packed in printed cellophane bags. The only additions to the basic semolina and water blend are vitamin enrichments required in certain states, including New York, California and Connecticut. (They are, in fact, added to all pasta shipped...