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...surface, families are coping by teaching children to put the roast in the oven after school, enrolling them in day care, hiring nannies, making play dates, sending out laundry and ordering in pizza. "We spend a lot of time buying time," observes economist Smith. "What we're doing is contracting out for family care," notes Rand demographer Peter Morrison, "but there's a limit. If you contract out everything, you have an enterprise, not a family...
Johnson is serious about wines, but not too serious. Vintage offers some deadpan send-ups of oenophile pretension. One segment displays a dinner at a Madeira Club in Savannah, where tuxedo-clad grandees, after a traditional meal of turtle soup and roast duck, grope for words to describe some rare 19th century Malmseys and Verdelhos. "It's like the young Brahms and the mature Liszt," burbles one member...
...vendor has an order for a couple thousand pounds of roast beef," says Carpenter, the meat and poultry buyer for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). "I'II pick out the ones I want...
...alter ego, rejects a suffocating marriage with a very eligible doctor and utters Heidi-esque lines like "I made choices based on an idea that doesn't exist anymore." Still, the spirit of the play is more aptly conveyed by Janie's comically maladroit efforts to cook a roast chicken for her boyfriend...
...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...