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...1980s the key Oscar night party was held at Hollywood's hottest restaurant, Spago. When super-agent Swifty Lazar passed on, a range of other parties took its place, including the current favorites of Vanity Fair and Elton John. But to many people nothing captures the Oscar party mood more than the quirkily shaped restaurant. With the Hollywood venue having been supplanted in industry affections by the Beverly Hills branch of Spago, Oscar night was going to be the last big party thrown at the legendary original restaurant before it is closed by Puck...
Kubota's favored '70s retro-glam ward-robe emphasizes the mood of the music he loves. But he hasn't gone entirely native. "When I go to clubs, I like to hang out with Americans, Japanese, different types of people," he says. "But even though I've lived in America for seven years, the only drink I drink is Japanese sake." There is a new description for the music industry: a sake-voiced rhythm and blues singer...
...mood in Europe is not panicked, but it is worried. Even in Britain, the epicenter of the foot-and-mouth disaster, farm communities may be devastated, but through last week they were suffering in resignation. Denise Walton, who with her husband Chris raises 250 head of beef cattle and 450 sheep in Berwickshire, near the Scottish border, talks sadly about being "at war with a silent enemy, never knowing where it is, and being forced to stay isolated on our farms." Prince Charles gave $720,000 last week to help those hit the hardest; he said he feared a harvest...
...wonder they were in a good mood. The debate was unscripted, a reminder of how the place operated in the freewheeling days when Senators actually used the brass spittoons under the antique desks. Such spontaneity is rare under Majority Leader Trent Lott, who does his best to precook and shrink-wrap bills before they reach the floor. But in this debate, neither side knew in advance what amendments the other was putting forward, and no one knew how most of the votes would come out. "I couldn't tell you today whether [an amendment] is going to get 20 votes...
After falling to the Fighting Irish, the Crimson knew it had significant room for improvement, but two intense practices on Monday and Tuesday reinstilled an optimistic mood into the Harvard locker room...