Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only interest the Democrats are not meeting is the personal ambition of Vrdolyak. The former leader of the Cook County Democratic machine could not win the party's endorsement for mayor--and he couldn't garner enough votes as a third party candidate to unseat incumbent Democrat Harold Washington...
...wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will be a duel of styles too: of romantic grandeur against the balloon-pricking impishness of a cast culled from Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest), Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook) and Not the Nine o'Clock News (Mel Smith). The air will billow with bombastic insults ("You hippopotamic land mass!") and a record-breaking number of comic speech impediments...
...name but a whole image and way of doing business. Many companies help their franchisees with almost every aspect of the operation. Says Stanley Williams, assistant director of communications for the Washington-based International Franchise Association: "The typical person starting a small business may be a good mechanic, cook or barber, but he doesn't know how to pick a location, buy supplies, hire and train workers and do his taxes. Franchising supplies this expertise...
...some institutions, residents have taken the initiative by forming unions to lobby for better hours. At Chicago's Cook County Hospital, for instance, the house-staff officers association managed to have call schedules reduced from every third night to once every four nights...
...Pygmalion. The window Tampopo is neither a statue-like work of art nor an Adam's rib. She is closer to the archetypal woman warrior, strong and in control of her own destiny. The gourmands who are supposed to teach her cannot directly show her how to cook; they don't give her the right recipes. They only help her to experiment on her own to find the right soup, to add the right vegetables, to make tasty noodles. As the title suggests, she is the center and driving force of the movie...