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...threatening to starve himself to death. Wearing green prison coveralls in a 10-ft. by 10- ft. isolation cell, he was refusing meals and drinking only water. His jailer, Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano, said Kevorkian would be watched closely and, if necessary as a last resort, the state would get a court order to authorize forced feeding. "Are we going to let Mr. Kevorkian die in our custody? No," he assured reporters...
...Lung, owner and manager of the YenchingRestaurant on Mass. Ave. for 19 years, says onlypoor chefs resort to using lots of MSG. And hischef, being a good chef, uses little more than apinch...
Boston may have a deplorably bad theater scene, but Fenway Park is a nice panacea. Growing up a baseball fan in Seattle is tough. One has to resort to fantasies of blowing up the Kingdome and building a real ballpark to survive. And even though I don't have the connections to see the Celtics play in the Garden, it's nice to know they're nearby...
There was nothing quality-ridden about the artist's original sources -- a smudgy, one-column figure of a girl with a beach ball advertising a resort in the Poconos, a moony frame from a romance comic. But by the time such things had been run through the loop from ad to art to ad again, they had become as invested with glamour as a photo by Avedon. The sheer pervasiveness of Lichtenstein's style rivals and maybe even exceeds Warhol's, even though, unlike Warhol, he kept his own distance from the ad industry as an artist and never offered...
...first flame was reported at 1:19 Tuesday afternoon, off the 16th tee of a golf course in Thousand Oaks, north of Malibu. Authorities suspect arson; in any case, the fire moved through the canyons in classic fashion, licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame...