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Employees of the Blue Parrot restaurant and Idler cafe will not likely unionize in response to the recent firing of all employees at the Ha'Penny pub and Ferdinand's restaurant, union officials said yesterday. All four restaurants are owned by the same person...
Managers of Ferdinand's, Haim Iffrah and Isaac Dray, refused to coment on the restaurant's closing. They said DiGiovanni--who also owns the Ha'penny, adjacent restaurants The Blue Parrot and The Idler, and The Atrium Cafe on Church St.--was out of town for the week...
Bozzotto said the union contacted employees of the Blue Parrot and The Idler--which, although they are owned by DiGiovanni, are part of a separate corporation--and that many have said they want to join the union. "They're very concerned about their own job security," he added...
...typical still life of earlier centuries-the 17th century Dutch table, say, cascading with "parrot tulips and gold beakers, fur, fruit, fish, feather and dew-drops-was a symbol of appropriation. It declared the owner's 5 power to seize and keep the real stuff of the world. Even the still lifes of that great master of meditative vision, Chardin, tend to retain this emblematic quality; it was written into his social background. In Morandi, things are otherwise...
...spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins. The sister pops a cookie into his mouth after each impeccable response, and Stefan plays the role with the precision of an ordained parrot...