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...with Nicole briefly at the swanky hotel where she was staying to get her pre-show sentiments. Her measured excitement reminded me of my own, and I got a lift over to the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard...
Hannah Meara, who works on such problems in Grand Boulevard with a group called Centers for New Horizons, describes a typical case. Having been saved by the hospital's routine miracles, the baby goes home to a mother whose welfare check runs out three weeks into the month. When the food also runs low, she is reduced to stretching the formula by adding too much water. The child may look healthy, but the dietary imbalance can cause severe growth retardation and infections that could ultimately lead to death. Meara tends to be quietly angry with the shortsightedness of a society...
...babies die. A funeral for a child under three months of age costs $300 in Grand Boulevard, not including the grave. The coffin is pine, covered with white doeskin on the outside and crepe within. It measures between 24 in. and 30 in. in length by 12 in. in width. Sometimes, as a courtesy, the funeral director will include a pink or blue ribbon across the inside of the coffin...
...Israeli cousins who run the Cannon Group are commonly called. That is not the case, although it is true that their idea of a power lunch is not Le Dome but a salami sandwich at their desks. It is also true that their headquarters on Sunset Boulevard has all the glamour of a discount electronics warehouse, with overflowing wastebaskets, well-scuffed walls and an assortment of mismatched gray carpets, all of them stained. Yet it is also a fact that in a generally depressed business the Cannon Group is doing well. King Solomon 's Mines, which came out before Thanksgiving...
...room at the construction site. This does not please his wife Dolores, who wants to study medicine but is stuck at home with a baby. Dolores is a latter-day stereotype and one that Breslin is less sure of than he is of the guys and dolls along Queens Boulevard. Still, she is vital and feisty enough to make his point about the gulf between blue-collar men and their women...