Word: dished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone strawberry. A cowbell used to guard the refrigerator from desperate raiders; it was abandoned as excessive, but the food still is not. At dinner one night, Brad Rosenberg, 43, a Los Angeles real estate developer, set aside some hated squash...
...affronted by their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
Fears that available programming will soon disappear have sent the home satellite business into a nose dive. Sales of dishes, tooling along at about 70,000 a month last autumn, fell to fewer than 15,000 in January. Bert LeCroy, owner of Sky Search Video in the Atlanta suburbs, estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard...
Such fears are exaggerated; not all satellite-beamed signals are being scrambled, and the $395 decoder will bring in most of the ones that are. Pay- cable executives defend their right to charge dish owners for picking up their channels. Subscription fees are what defray the cost of programming, they argue, and it is only fair that dish owners ante up too. "In order for this product to exist, it has to be paid for by those who use it," says Duncan Murray, a vice president of the Disney Channel...
...daring electronic whiz called Captain Midnight breaks into hbo programming to air dish owners' beefs against cable services...