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Once the class act of baseball, the New York Yankees have fallen on ugly times. For nearly two years, Owner George Steinbrenner, Manager Billy Martin and Outfielder Reggie Jackson have presided over one of the tackier chapters in the sport's history. Together the Cuisinart blades of their egos have produced an almost daily puree of spite, envy and innuendo. In the process, they have transformed baseball's proudest franchise into a synonym for small-minded rancor. Last week one of them, Billy Martin, exited, temporarily, from the one job he always wanted in baseball. Question: Did he fall...
Emmylou Harris, country rock singer, describing the album she will make with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt: "We will aim for some things people might not expect us to do. We will put it in the big Cuisinart and see what comes...
...With Cuisinart and Escoffier...
Americans rammed Christmas 1977 through a Cuisinart food processor, flashed it on a Comp IV desktop computer game, scented it with Chanel No. 19 and set it to play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...
...Christmases past, Americans spent money for high-priced quality items. "It was a luxury kind of Christmas," says Hal Silver, chairman of Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. Adds Gordon Cooke, senior vice president for sales promotion at Bloomingdale's: "Price was no object." The French-made metal-housed Cuisinart, which slices, dices, chops, minces and shreds faster than conventional individual tools, sells for $225. Yet it and lower-priced competitors (La Machine, Omnichef) flew off shelves so fast that almost no store could seem to keep them in stock. Neiman-Marcus in Houston sold 24 West German-made exercise...