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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most food programs you wind up with canned goods," says Kroger Vice President Jack Partridge. After studying food banks, Kroger found that poor people's diets often lack fresh fruit, milk, bread and potatoes. The customer donations defray Kroger's cost of issuing food stamps for twelve such selected perishables to needy recipients. Since it was launched in March, the program has dispensed about $5,000 a week in food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charity: The Milk of Kindness | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...senior cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Wertheimer, while Jack Farrell wasted little time in destroying Nyman, 6-1, 6-1, sealing the Ivy title for the Crimson...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Nab Sixth-Straight Ivy Title | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...when the family members, aided by Jack's doctor, manage to convince him in an overly dramatic end to the first act that he is not actually the god of love, Jack naturally becomes the devil. Of course, Jack as devil conforms much better to the expectations of British nobility than did Jack as god of love. Message: man, or at least members of the British ruling class, is essentially evil in his inability to love, and sanity can be inseparable from insanity. A simple enough concept to grasp, but it takes the play the greater part of three hours...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Delusions of Grandeur | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Samuel Sifton, as Jack, almost manages to rescue this script from its inherent inanity. He executes a brilliant performance as the paranoid schizophrenic, yet appealing, Jack. Sifton's high level of energy as the frenetically-crazed Jack never drops. Even during Jack's saner moments, Sifton shows how Jack is fundamentally disturbed...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Delusions of Grandeur | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Compared to Barr and Sifton, the other members of the Gurney family--Peter Ocko as Jack's uncle, Leta Hong Fincher as Ocko's wife and *** Tremoulet as their son--pale. While the three are adequate to good, Barr and Sifton save the play from being painful to watch...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Delusions of Grandeur | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

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