Word: bonbon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With that windfall, Baekeland, his wife Celine (known as "Bonbon") and two children moved to Snug Rock, a palatial estate north of Yonkers, N.Y., overlooking the Hudson River. There, in a barn he converted into a lab, he began foraging for his next big hit. It wasn't long before the burgeoning electrical industry seemed to say just one word to him: insulators...
...devoted clients who care little about looking like someone else. Journalist Amy Fine Collins, Beene's muse, has worn his clothes exclusively for the past 10 years because the design is "so strong, so graphic, so precise." Beene dresses women of means but not, as he puts it, "the bonbon and Pekingese type...
...kitchens all these years if not some species of work? No one receives AFDC payments without having at least one child to feed, wash, dress and pick up after, and the assumption of the welfare reformers seems to be that these activities are on a par with bonbon consumption. In the conceptual framework that holds that welfare mothers "don't work," affluent married homemakers can't rank much higher than courtesans...