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...Marxist would merely interpret Bill Cosby as the culmination of an oppressed minority which rises up, only to fall into the ruinous capitalist practices of Yuppiedom. My Grandfather bypasses the professional jargon with his simple, yet all encompassing vision of Cosby's influence on the American public...
Since delivery time can be ruinous to certain dishes, some chefs refuse to send out such items as fried chicken and fresh-shucked oysters and clams. Manhattan's Water Club restaurant stopped delivering food on a regular basis after a one-month trial because, says owner Michael O'Keeffe, "fine meals have to be served a few moments after being cooked." Other restaurateurs have < devised special techniques to deal with the time lag. Some chefs undercook fish, for example, allowing it to continue heating in delivery trucks' warming ovens. Pierre Saint-Denis, chef-owner of Manhattan's Le Refuge, stabilizes...
...Szoka has written movingly about the church's past failures in ministering to blacks. But the Cardinal felt compelled to take drastic action, in part because of Detroit's ruinous population decline. The city's churches, however, are also dying because they have failed to enlist any significant numbers of blacks when white ethnics began moving out of their neighborhoods. Says the Rev. Norman Thomas, a white priest who opposes the closings: "The church has not done an adequate job of being a church in the city, and that includes attracting blacks...
Shop-till-you-drop types tend to draw more scorn than sympathy. Visions of Imelda Marcos and 2,400 pairs of shoes dance in people's heads. But therapists insist that compulsive shopping can be as ruinous as gambling, disrupting families and plunging sufferers into debt. Many people enjoy the occasional spree, but shopaholics' lives are consumed by buying. Says psychologist Georgia Witkin of New York City, author of a recently published book on compulsive behavior, Quick Fixes & Small Comforts (Villard; $17.95): "The day shapes up around getting to stores...
...disaster was one of the worst to strike Lisbon in centuries. A ruinous fire last week swept through the Chiado, the capital's historic central shopping district, gutting dozens of buildings and sending shocked residents into mourning for a charred heritage. The conflagration left one dead, 41 injured, 300 homeless and 2,000 shopworkers unemployed. Portuguese officials promised that rebuilding of the Chiado would begin as soon as possible, but for now Lisbon must live with a disfiguring wound...