Word: cooker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head-on crashes of his Lionel trains. He would go on camping trips with his family and turn his home movies into melodramas. ("I never felt life was good enough," he says now, "so I had to embellish it.") At his request, Leah boiled cherries jubilee in a pressure cooker until it exploded, and Steven filmed the messy crimson walls and floor. Once Leah asked him to photograph the family in their convertible; Steven took a shot of the hubcap. Leah shakes her head: "I should have known that meant something...
...really I'm very self-sufficient, I made Beef Stroganoff in the pressure cooker the other night...
Prolonged wage and price controls do not work, even in a socialist-controlled economy. If the relief valve on the pressure cooker is jammed shut by government policy, without regard for economic reality, any fleeting benefits are bought at the price of an eventual explosion...
...have more confidence in the ability of government to shape the future," Sullivan counters, but he too says "to a certain extent what we are doing is putting a lid on a pressure cooker. Occasionally, though the lid can be kept on, depending on how much pressure gets turned up under the pot." Should the ordinances and the controls fail, there is another line of resistance, though. "What we're doing is buying time to get our act together." Vickery explains. "right now, our efforts are fragmented." If the city's housing authority, redevelopment office and city planners work together...