WHAT PEOPLE LOVE AND HATE IN RESTAURANTS
With more than 4,000 restaurant closings nationwide last year, MasterCard thought it would be a good time to study what keeps some restaurants busy, others not so busy. The MasterCard...
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AS THE PLOTS THICKEN, SO DOES THE SOUP
It was a bitter day, and pale sunlight the color of weak tea slanted through the window. She was curled up in the den, a tangle of lap rugs over...
ON-AIR SPECIALIST
Richard Hart started laying the groundwork to become what he calls a ''high-tech hero'' more than a decade ago when most of us thought of him as just another clean-cut...
`CONGA KING` LETS HIS DRUMS DO THE TALKING
You`ve heard of ''The Mambo Kings.'' Well, how about ''The Conga King''? The Conga King doesn`t play congas, at least not well. He can`t do the conga. He can`t even...
MANHATTAN TRANSFER`S BENTYNE MAKES SOLO ALBUM
Since `40s-style jazz has long been part of its oeuvre, the Manhattan Transfer was the perfect group to contribute a couple of performances to the baseball film ''A League of...
AS A BOARDER, BEETHOVEN CAN BE A PAIN
Never mind the famous perspiration-to-inspiration ratio; genius is a pain in the neck-at least living with it is, assuming the genius is Ludwig van Beethoven, and you`re Christoph, the kid...
GOING THE DISTANCE TO SERVE MILLIONS
For three years now, John J. Scanlan has been planning how to throw breakfast, lunch and dinner for more than 4 million people from 170 countries. He`s come up with...
`PRELUDE TO A KISS` DIRECTOR HAD TO FIGHT FOR PIVOTAL SCENE
Norman Rene has been living with ''Prelude to a Kiss'' for four years now. Back in 1988, Rene directed the first stage production of Craig Lucas` offbeat romance-the story of...
BABY-SITTERS SHARPEN SKILLS
Three years ago Christy Lowery, baby-sitter, became Christy Lowery, lifesaver. Then 13, the Ocoee, Fla., girl was looking after 4-year-old Stephen Jones and his younger sister, Katie. Suddenly Stephen was...
COMPUTER SURGERY
With the steadiest of hands, David E. Altobelli delicately lifts the scalp tissue, revealing the surface of the skull. He exposes the forehead, the inner structure of the eyeballs, the...