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...watches his television set an average of 13 hours a week. He uses his neighbor's telephone, but expects to get his own within a year or so. He has a car-a modest economy Renault, Fiat or Volkswagen. He has a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, food blender and refrigerator, but no deepfreeze, air conditioner or dishwasher. He has a savings account, but hoards a bit of gold at home as a hedge against a sudden collapse of paper currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Europe: The British Are Coming!?* | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...coming as they do from the ingrown neurotic. Estelle Parsons prepares a special fruit "frappe" according to vegetarian specifications, sips her Manhattan and uses her considerable vocabulary to vent general anger and disgust. When Anna tells Fleur that good vegetable diets result in odorless feces, Catherine flips on the blender. The noise is surprising, perfectly timed. Similarly, Anna twice fires a silver gun, loaded with blanks, first at Ceil, then at Bob Stein. The first shot, before the Stein's visit, had grisly psychological meaning. The second during the Stein's visit was sheer fun, an experience which the whole...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: The Theatregoer And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little at the Wilbur until February 22 | 2/11/1971 | See Source »

Urban Junglegym. The people who put together Company belong on a royal honors' list. At the top stands Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist. Many recent Broadway scores have sounded as if they were composed by a Waring Blender. Sondheim is a man with an inventive musical mind; his lyrics have a spartan simplicity, yet they are witty, incisive and playful. Of George Furth, who wrote the libretto, one can only say: Hosanna, finally a book with intelligence. Producer-Director Harold Prince surpasses himself in staging this show and invests each scene with an electric tingle of surprise, delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fabulous | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

...elements swirled in the blender. Ice, air, water, sugar and guanabana forsook their individual natures in order to become something new together. In anticipation Merilee licked the sweat from her upper lip. Her Sam was already deep into his sandia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

...lucky for the poor man's overtaxed heart that Merilee and Sam had decided to have their prenuptial breakfast in the palmy shade at his old lady's refreshment stand, where he could rest and have his wife churn him a cooling drink in her blender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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