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...have an outrageous number of suicides for a community our size," says Laurie Pfaelzer, 19, of Glencoe, who knew one student who slit his wrist and two who ran their cars into trees. "Growing up here, you're handed everything on a silver platter, but something else is missing. The one thing parents don't give is love, understanding, acceptance of you as a person." Adds Isadora Sherman of Highland Park's Jewish Family and Community Service: "People give their kids a lot materially, but expect a lot in return. No one sees his kids as average...
Grouse darting on the wing and sizzling on the platter If you could throw a net over the Highlands in August," wrote English Commentator Horace Cox in 1872, "you could catch nine-tenths of the genius and glory of Great Britain." The reason for this grandiose concentration in Scotland is the wily, toothsome red grouse, Lagopus scoticus, which exists only in the wild state and only in the United Kingdom (particularly on the heathery moors of the north). The grouse season opens on the "Glorious Twelfth" of August and lasts until Dec. 10. For marksmen, or "guns," as well...
...size 14 cop. And Ryan, he dies a death fit for a B-School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed the trigger again and again and again and again. Tommy Ryan's body made stupid drunken lurches all over the table. He reached out a hand and grabbed a dinner platter and pulled it with him to the floor. The big lobster lay next to Tommy Ryan on the thick Persian...
What age and experience have failed to feed this nation in the past 20 years has finally been served on a platter by its youth at the Winter Olympics [March 3]. How hungry we'd become! And so for two weeks in February 1980 we ate it all up. God, it feels good to be full...
...imagination. Overcoming a dearth of dialogue, Armstrong injects each scene with life and imagination. Sybylla's first dinner with her grandmother is touchingly familiar to any viewer who has ever squirmed in a stiff and formal setting. As Sybylla fumbles with string beans and carrots--served on a silver platter by a butler--Armstrong accurately captures her nervousness and excitement in an intimate and endearing fashion...