Word: cooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...listen to him. It's not possible, I mean, if you're a human being." Asked to recollect his mother in happier circumstances, he said that she was very attractive, handsome, not beautiful, "because that would not be accurate." Lifting the mood, he added that she was a terrible cook...
Many COST parents are upset by the Craig Claiborne atmosphere in the home ec program. Under "equipment replacement," next year's budget lists $2,650 for such things as self-cleaning ovens and a microwave unit. "Microwave cooking is a new kitchen technology," argues one defender of the space-age gadget. Adds another: "With microwave ovens, the kids can cook up a meal and eat it, all in the same period.'1 "Phooey," sneers a middle-aged widow and mother of three. "The parents in this town just want high-priced baby-sitting systems for their children...
...Shales style is a fast-paced blend of insight, humor and an almost possessive affection for the medium. He can write lovingly, as he did in "Dingbat's Demise," his column about the death of All in the Family's Edith Bunker: "Wife, mother, grandma, neighbor ... philosopher, cook, mender of socks, bringer of beers, keeper of the faith ... Edith, Edith, Edith, how could you ever up and die on us?" He can be outraged, as he was last February when the networks aired a cluster of exploitative TV movies on torture, rape, child abuse and teen-age prostitution...
...little plot had backfied. I had thought I could make this handsome, not Jewish, Oxford-educated poet fall in love with me if I stayed overnight at his house. Then we would get married. I would cook for him and clean his house. (I neither knew how to cook nor how to clean, but these could not be difficult to learn...
Viet Nam still chokes Americans. The nation will not recover from it, or learn from all of that slaughter and guilt, until it acknowledges that the men who fought the nation's first teen-age war (average age: 19.2 years) did not cook up that war themselves in a mischievous moment. That was all of America out there. "It was a collective enterprise," says Dr. Egendorf, "and we were all damaged by it. A family melodrama is still going on. Sometimes a psychologist cannot treat the individual alone; he must see the whole family together...