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...other thing that happens when people find out that I am conservative is that I am almost invariably called upon in the occasional dining hall argument to take the conservative side on whatever issue is being debated over a cold pu-pu platter...
...long-playing 33 1/3-r.p.m. record is suddenly spinning toward antiquity, just like the old 78-r.p.m. platter it replaced back in 1948. LPs hold just 10% of the U.S. market for recorded music, in contrast to 52% for cassettes and 34% for compact discs. In the first half of this year, manufacturers shipped only $303 million in LPs, down 23% from the same period in 1987. Some record labels, including Warner Bros. and EMI, no longer maintain some titles in LP versions. Several classical labels, notably Deutsche Grammophon and CBS Masterworks, sell most new releases only in cassette...
...where individual lemon meringue tarts ($6) and dense, moist chocolate velvet cake ($6) are among the first to go. Another trend: dessert samplers, with an assortment of up to seven different confections. Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of San Francisco's Square One, describes her $6.50 version as "a ritual platter, a little orgy...
...Harvard Squares prefer music similar to the Kroks' repertoire, but will sing whatever people want to hear. "Unlike the Krokodiloes, who have a following served on a silver platter, we don't already have a market established so we need to be adaptable," said Korn...
...happen to think it's a better issue for the Democrats than for the Republicans," said House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.). House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) asked, "Why hand it to us on a silver platter...