Word: macdonaldization
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Lately the group has tried to increase awareness by postering Eliot House with such slogans as "Old MacDonald had AFARM" and "There is no cause for AALARM...
...home, which has grown with the addition of Kristen, 3, with the Latin ethic that values family above all else. "Here, you live to work. There, we work to live," she says. "In Venezuela we take a two-hour lunch break; we don't cram in a hamburger at MacDonald...
David Ackroyd as George is the archetypal history professor, who speaks solemnly, holds forth portentously and submits wordlessly to his small-scale destiny. David Macdonald is suitably well-muscled as Nick, but isn't very convincing during his more intelligent outbursts. Patricia Dunnock is far too annoying and babyish as Honey for us to really feel the horror of her climactic drunken confession. It seems a mistake for director Larry Arrick to make Honey and Nick so ludicrously two-dimensional, for it undermines the true cruelty of George and Martha's manipulations if we feel Honey and Nick aren...
Whatever the scientific conclusions, Bill Wordham, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute trade group, contends that the court cases are an invasion of privacy: "We have to ask ourselves where this would stop. Is a parent who habitually takes a child to MacDonald's or otherwise feeds that child unhealthy food any less deserving of custody? What about a parent who allows his child to watch long hours of television?" Some nonindustry observers agree, conjuring up visions of government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social...
...People might be smoking less, but they're smoking better," Macdonald says. "They're going for better quality and more expensive tobacco...