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...started to make repairs by appearing "in Atlantic City a hundred times, Vegas 200 times, Miami Beach a million times." Then came ventures in theater and film. A comedy, A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, featuring Jackie Mason and $100,000 of his money, lasted one night on Broadway. He produced and acted in the celluloid bomb The Stoolie, "another effort in my series of efforts to get somewhere." Through all those trials and travels on the road, Mason, 56, never married "because I didn't want to be intensely involved with someone I knew I wouldn't see a week...
...based in Wenatchee, calls its fruit the "original health food" and asserts that the natural fiber in apples is an appetite suppressor. The Potato Board is pushing its vegetable as "multivitamins with minerals." Even the Sugar Association has something positive to stress: the sweetener's low 16 calories a teaspoon and its placement on the Food and Drug Administration's "safe" list, a claim artificial alternatives cannot make. "Which would you rather put on your kids' cereal...
Some are reminiscent of the rabbinical parables Singer heard his father tell in Poland. A rich miser lends his neighbor a silver spoon. Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...
...technique, called chemonucleolysis, may eliminate the need for up to 75% of such surgery. In the hourlong procedure, the surgeon, guided by images on a fluoroscope, inserts a 6-in. needle into the gelatinous core of the disc and injects 1 to 1.5 milliliters (about one-third of a teaspoon) of chymopapain into the disc. Within seconds, the pulpy tissue dissolves, relieving pressure on the nerves...
...houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan, 52, furnish the houses down to the last table cloth and teaspoon, fill the bookshelves and stock the bar. Architecturally, the dwellings are a kind of California contemporary. Most come with pools, Jacuzzi rooms, electronic security systems and multimedia entertainment rooms. Says Albert Segal, who moved to the Gold Coast from Charlotte, N.C., after retiring as chairman of the Pic'n Pay shoe...