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...Cream. Even though it may be snowing outside, no one can resist ice cream. Especially when it's in the form of an ice-cream cake from one of the many parlours in the Square. Emack & Bolio's (1310 Mass. Ave.) pies range from $8.95 to $17.95, while Steve's (31 Church) $8.95 concoctions serve between five...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...goat cheese, cold pasta and dangerously raw salmon. Nevertheless, this erratic chef has a talent for simple dishes, among them lobster gazpacho, warm duck salad with turnip pancake, chopped lamb steak au poivre, T-bone steak cowboy style, a luscious warm vegetable stew and a fragrant polenta pound cake with Madeira cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

American officials in the know insist that much of this story is sheer invention intended to make the U.S. look ludicrous. What really happened, they say, was this: McFarlane, North and two bodyguards did visit Tehran, but their passports were neither U.S. nor Irish. Also, they carried no Bible, cake or guns. They stayed in Tehran four or five days and managed to meet a number of Iranian officials, possibly including Rafsanjani, although accounts differ on that subject. Stories vary too on what, if anything, the mission accomplished. Some say that McFarlane's contacts with the Iranians were amicable, others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...begun to serve as a mild form of licensed antiSemitism." But like many a clever provincial before him, he knows that writing well is the best revenge. In his pages, it is the English who emerge as outlandish, not least in their accents. One office colleague offered James a cake that proved to be a soft drink. "No, not cake," she explained. "Cake. Cake-Akela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medusa Touch Falling Towards England | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...they didn't have individually." But Omnicom has a worrisome growing pain: the refusal of some advertisers to deal with an agency that handles any archrival products. The merger of three agencies brought together under one roof many combinations of fiercely competitive consumer goods. Pillsbury, for example, which had cake and frosting accounts with Omnicom, withdrew $30 million in business because another branch of the combined agency represents Betty Crocker mixes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Not-So-Jolly Advertising Giants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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