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...U.C.L.A., where he works on political business, his radio broadcasts and newspaper columns. Lately, he has been out of town making speeches about one week a month. Otherwise he generally returns home to his family by 6, showers, changes into pajamas and eats a simple meal, often his favorite macaroni and cheese. After dinner Reagan munches on jelly beans as he works over his papers and speeches, which he writes in a personal shorthand on 4-in. by 5-in. index cards, or watches television. Favorite programs include The Waltons and reruns of Mission: Impossible. His best-liked authors include...
...balcony or lay out his clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them down at his daughter-in-law's house and had the effrontery to praise her cooking effusively, to Rosa's mortification. After some mutual Neapolitan hysterics, the pair heals this terrible rift...
Polizzi has joined 1,100 of the area's 1,500 families in a nonprofit development corporation to guide the future of the area. In its four years' existence, the corporation has found 60 jobs for new -and old-residents in the neighborhood's salami and macaroni factories, tool company and glass factory. It has set up a summer youth program and hired students at $1 an hour to spruce up the area. The students redecorated the Hill's hydrants and trash cans in red, white and green (the colors of the Italian flag). More than...
Through another tunnel and into the light of Brooklyn, where the Ronzoni factory advertises its macaroni, spaghetti, and egg noodles. Tenement after tenement after tenement appear, endless duplicates of shambling brick, cracked windows, and beaten roofs. Behind, the buildings of Manhattan's East Side stand fiercely on the edge of the island, presenting a glittering metallic wall. A few blocks away, a teenage girl with red-painted finger nails picks up a laundry basket in the greasy kitchen of her small home. She turns down the light of the hamburgers crackling on the stove and goes out onto the back...
...sheer economics. Inflation and rising prices have upset school budgets as much as they have disturbed household finances. Such essentials as pencils and paper have soared in price. Standard elementary school pencils cost 90? per gross four years ago; now they are $2.25. Students everywhere will be getting more macaroni and cheese and less meat in their school lunches now, and most will be paying more for them (up from an average of 40? to 50? this fall). The Hauppauge school system on Long Island will pay 25% more for fuel oil this year, but willingly signed a contract with...