Word: appealling
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...have no cholesterol and are generally low in sodium and calories and high in several nutrients. Finally, improved refrigeration and transportation make it possible to ship produce to far-off places, a consideration that will probably become less important as American farmers continue to experiment with these varieties. The appeal of these new products is not limited to New York and California, as food trends so often are. In Chicago, the current rage is jicama (pronounced hee-kahmah), a knobby, earth-colored tuber from Mexico; it looks rather like a giant water chestnut, which is just about what this crisp...
Last week New York's United Black Church Appeal launched a valiant campaign against the drug. Some 200 ministers, celebrities and antidrug activists participated in street-corner rallies and 24-hour vigils in areas where crack is sold. "The house is on fire," said Actor Ossie Davis at a rally in Harlem. "Those of us who care have to ring the alarm bell." While calling for greater community action, organizers of the campaign mocked the Federal Government's efforts to stop drug trafficking, including the raids in Bolivia. "I'll never understand why, if they're serious about a drug...
According to Councillor Alice Wolf, Wasserman asked that the Zoning Board's decision be made final so that he can appeal it legally without taking the extra 60 days. She said the communities have rebelled against him "in response to a very unresponsive developer who is...not living within the zoning code and now he's being picked up on every point...
...mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success, "Big Time," seems strikingly out of place on an album geared to appeal to the intoxicated youth of summer...
Desyr has also been charged with the 1976 murder of two cousins of Dusmarsais Estime, President of Haiti during the 1940s. Desyr had been scheduled to stand trial on those charges last week, but the Estime murder trial was postponed to allow Desyr to appeal his conviction. Two 90-minute tape recordings of the torturing of the Estimes were seized from Desyr's home last February. The tapes, filled with screams, have been broadcast on Haitian radio stations. At one point on the tape, Desyr orders a man torturing one of the cousins to "break his finger...