Word: beane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene from the Great Gold Rush. There they stood, rank upon frozen rank, along the icy river banks, occasionally stumbling back to toast numbed fingers over blazing fires in the zero-degree cold. Every motel for miles around was full. The ground was littered with empty bourbon bottles, bean cans, and instant-coffee jars. Signs warned: PROTECT YOUR ACCESS TO THE RIVER, and a productive "beat" (60 ft. of river frontage) sold for $5,000. But the only gold around was in somebody's teeth. The hardy types who lined the banks of the Skagit and a hundred other...
Kellogg and Quaker Oats have seized 73% of the growing market for breakfast cereals in Britain, Heinz 63% of that country's $70 million-a-year baked-bean market and 61% of its canned-soup bowl. Led by General Mills, National Biscuit and Pillsbury, U.S. companies now control half of the French biscuit business. A Carnation subsidiary produces 85% of all the evaporated milk sold in France, and Corn Products' Knorr soups have half the German market. In Germany, a Kraft Foods subsidiary sells a line of 100 products, including cheeses and complete packaged spaghetti or rice dinners...
More Supermarkets. Many native dishes have also been given the American treatment. In Brazil, International Packers of Chicago cans and sells feijoada, the country's traditional black bean, rice and pork dish. When Quaker Oats moved into Italy, it found a winning product in precooked two-minute polenta, the cornmeal mush without which no meal in rural northern Italy is complete. Last week in Mexico, where the hot dog is becoming nearly as popular as the hot tamale, General Foods began selling jars of the fiery chocolate sauce called mole. Though the French have remained staunchly traditionalist...
...fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing Dan can cozen a long-ignored son (Orson Bean) into giving him houseroom...
Only a rare and incorrigibly urban heart never stirs with immemorial longings, has never urged its owners to arise and go now to some local Isle of Innisfree, there to plant nine bean rows, keep a bee, and put up summer screens...