Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daley's powerful Democratic machine appeared to be headed for at least one, and possibly two, defeats in races for Governor and Cook County State's Attorney...
...smoking, oddsmaking computer would opt for a widow as the ideal candidate, since that would remove the husband question yet endow her with a patina of nonthreatening domestic respectability. Throw in a couple of grown children, the computer might add, and let the word out that she loves to cook-on occasion...
...Fran Watkins, married eight years ago, began in the traditional pattern: he taught school, and she kept house. Today Fran, 29, is program coordinator of Berkeley, Calif., radio station KPFA; Ted, 34, stays home and tends their son Sam, 7, and daughter Storm, 3. Ted has learned to cook well, and he does most-but not all-of the routine cleaning, washing and shopping. Fran shares in the household chores after work and on weekends. "I don't like to say our family is committed to Women's Lib," she says. "I think it's committed...
...clothes, take out the garbage every other day, write a bimonthly letter to his family, fix breakfast every weekend, devote one weekend a month exclusively to his wife, fetch calorie-laden treats for her without teasing, clean up his own kitchen messes and empty the dishwasher, plan and cook one "nice" dinner a month-and let Jo-Ann choose the next new car. Bob signed, the contract was hung on the refrigerator, and Jo-Ann promptly turned into a nag trying to enforce it. "We started beating each other over the head with contracts," says Bob, a Baptist clergyman...
...true enough that virtually all of the world's great chefs are men-but it is also true that most men are the world's worst cooks. Teaching a husband to cook, laudable though that feminist goal may be, can create frightening strains in a marriage-not to mention the gastrointestinal system. However, Suzanne Prescott, 29, a Chicago rock musician, has suggested a painless and sinisterly Skinnerian strategy for transforming husbands into expert meatloaf makers...