Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, customers of the Thomas Cook travel agency refused to fly on Eastern Air Lines. In Manhattan, clerks at the bustling Avos agency on Fifth Avenue stopped writing tickets for Continental Air Lines. In Houston, passengers had to pass through picket lines on their way to flights. All across the U.S. last week, the normally routine business of air travel was suddenly overtaken by confusion and uncertainty. "People are scared," said Kathy Prezas, manager of Chicago's Apollo Travel. "They used to choose an airline for its food, or fares, or times. Now they are deciding which carrier...
...Quisto (Edward Albert), who wants to put oil derricks on the grazing land; and now Chance (Sam Elliott), fresh from a seven-year stretch for murder one. The women, too, can be hard as a Texas dirt road and twice as dangerous: Grace McKenzie (a sizzling Susan Anspach), the cook, serves up more than biscuits, and Colleen Champion (a restored Cybill Shepherd) looks ready to make trouble with every male on the show. The first episode gives hints of money wrangles and byzantine plot twists, but The Yellow Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series...
...author's ability to quickly construct scenes. Michener is at his best when describing the homier aspects of Polish life; his 17th century wedding festival is the strongest scene in the book. He specifies which section of the slaughtered pig is eaten by which class, and how they cook it, as well as the music, dancing, costumes, and ceremonies which make up the rest of the celebration. But that sort of immediacy is missing in most of his scenes; a potentially lively and fascinating topic literally suffocates under the weight of the book's preconceived structure...
When Harold Washington was elected mayor of Chicago last spring, he boldly vowed to break the "ancient, decrepit and creaking machine" that has controlled the city for decades. In turn, the machine forces, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, declared war on Washington...
...Hollywood Wives, Collins (1 last week) 2. Christine, King (2) 3. The Seduction of Peter S., Sanders (3) 4. August, Rossner (4) 5. Who Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain 6. White Gold Wielder, Donaldson (6) 1. The Name of the Rose, Eco (8) 8. Godplayer, Cook (5) 9. The Little Drummer Girl, Le Carré (7) 10. Decision, Drury...