Word: beckers
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...that keep-the-faith individual, this bull market's greatest ally, who ended, at least for the time being, what could have been a global catastrophe. "All day [Monday] I was hearing stories of gloom and doom, about the market being in the tank," says Susan Becker Doroshow, 40, a dentist in Evanston, Ill. "And when I got home, we started hearing from some of my husband's friends, who are very actively involved in the market. They were practically opening their veins...
...proved monstrously tricky. For aside from its encyclopedic thoroughness, much of the cookbook's perennial appeal has stemmed from the distinctive, comforting, we're-all-in-this-together voices of two women: Irma Rombauer, who wrote and self-published the original Joy in 1931, and her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker, who first served as her mother's helper and later assumed full custodianship of the ongoing endeavor. Dying of cancer, Marion concluded her acknowledgments to the 1975 edition in a valedictory manner: "But Joy, we hope, will always remain essentially a family affair, as well as an enterprise in which...
This was not self-puffery but a simple statement of fact. A Joy of Cooking without a Rombauer or Becker at the helm seemed inconceivable, like Johnson's Dictionary without Dr. Samuel Johnson. For what mother and daughter remarkably accomplished was to filter a vast array of information through a personal style. Irma Rombauer's subtitle for the original 1931 Joy was A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Her text justified this advertisement. Here was the author on serving alcohol to guests: "Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take...
Many critics argue that Becker is making huge and simplistic generalizations; his response is that comedy is all about generalizations. He says, "Yes, there is generalizing going on, but it is based on my experiences with women. My experiences are the experiences of millions of couples. People always say to me 'how did you know?'" He also qualifies many of his statements about either sex. His audience goes to the theater to laugh and possibly to learn something...
...Becker acknowledges the power of his show. He has attracted psychologists, historians and even graduate students in the field of anthropology to his show. Comments from his audience have had a huge role in the development of his show. He calls Defending the Caveman "a dialogue between the audience and himself...