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...backdrop, Lopata, 45, has unveiled some half-dozen eateries in the past year alone, each in a distinctive style. Foremost among them are the reserved restoration of the haute cuisine Lutece; the playful deli-diner that is Lox Around the Clock; Casino Pascal, a barren redo of a plusher, earlier Lopata work; and Extra! Extra!, in the New York Daily News Building, a stylish cafe with a black-and-white newsprint theme and "spilled ink" glazed onto floor tiles. On the drawing board for next year: a face- lifting for that theater-district landmark, Sardi...
Hardly. Eastern renamed its service "The Shuttle Plus." New frills: free food and drinks, plusher waiting areas, assigned seating, additional legroom, newspapers, magazines and renewed zeal. "Nobody is going to make or break a shuttle on a bagel," Eastern Spokeswoman Paula Musto said stoutly. She added, "Of course, we don't want to lose anyone over a piece of cream cheese...
Wider and plusher than standard airline seats, TWA's lounger has a little padded footrest and reclines up to 40 degrees. Says its developer, TWA Industrial Designer Daniel Sauter: "It's a kind of mixture between a barber seat and a La-Z-Boy chair." The design redistributes weight to the legs and back, putting less of it on the buttocks. TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet." With other parts of their anatomy...
...secreted in a motel on the outskirts of Toronto, crash-coursing the last 2,000 or so questions for the Genus II U.S. edition of Trivial Pursuit, due out next January. Scott Abbott and the brothers Chris and John Haney, multimillionaires and still in their mid-30s, could afford plusher accommodations, but, as Chris notes, "nobody bugs us, the phone doesn't ring, and we're only 20 feet from the motel bar." Strewn about the room are a globe, dozens of reference books and more than a few glasses of beer. In their rumpled clothes and their...
...Poverty. Amid the relative prosperity of the early 60s, primarily Blacks were relegated to this lowest income strata. The "equalizing" twist of the 80s is that under Reagan-styled economic Darwinism. Americans are now willing to sacrifice white families as well in order to perpetuate the plusher segments of the economy. And with frustrated hopes for economic advancement, so too many of the legal gains of the civil rights movement seem to wither in the face of supply side and survival of the fittest. With a shrinking economic pie, hard fought affirmative action plans are flooding the courts...