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Good Chinese food requires hours of preparation, and as fewer smuggled-in aliens find their way to restaurant kitchens, lovers of Oriental cuisine can expect their eating expenses to skyrocket--and even achieve parity with the prices of a less-interesting European diet. Joyce Chen, who long ago began providing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Glutton's Guide to the Square | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Dark, slinky, with a faintly Oriental mien and a marvelously adaptable mouth, Cornell was dubbed the American Duse. After indelibly establishing her star status as the sultry Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, she later chose rich dramatic roles in the "Katharine Cornell Presents" company she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Most of the Asiatic folk medicines sold in San Francisco's Chinatown are harmless. Sliced deer horn and powdered tiger penis, which believers in mystical medicine take to increase virility, are unlikely to hurt anything but the buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Pills | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Recovering from surgery, Author Henry Miller, 82, likes to receive visitors- particularly fellow writers-at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., where he lives in quiet, bourgeois comfort. Recently Lawrence Durrell, 62, author of The Alexandria Quartet, dropped in and lounged on Miller's bed, reminiscing. Miller, whose Tropic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1974 | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

> Large numbers of Westerners have come to accept the idea that acupuncture can help alleviate pain. But doctors have expressed doubts about another claim advanced for the ancient Oriental art: needle wielding can relieve nerve deafness, a hearing loss caused by damage to the cranial nerve that serves the ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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