Word: cuisinart
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Among other things that are not, or only dimly, reflected in the 1975 Joy: the mounting ubiquity of microwave ovens and such once obscure utensils as the Cuisinart and the wok; the explosion of ethnic restaurants and cuisines; and the widespread disappearance of housewives into workplaces, making more and more weekday suppers a matter of heating up whatever someone in the family had the foresight to bring home from the take...
...destroying employee morale. Adams, having conquered the cartoon world--his strip is in three-quarters of America's daily newspapers, and his first book, The Dilbert Principle, sold 1.2 million copies--is working on a cheap nutritional food to end world poverty. He's serious. "I've bought the Cuisinart and made prototypes," he says. "I just can't make something that tastes good...
...bomb-ticking chase movie about a daredevil pilot (Travolta) who steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can coexist. It flies at the speed of Macho 2 while allowing Woo to unpack his full cinematic arsenal: overhead shots, plenty of steamy atmosphere (Travolta smokes a lot), Cuisinart editing of the action scenes, slow motion to prolong the jitters and, for dialogue scenes that other directors would stand flatfooted and watch, lithe little tracking shots. If film school were fun, Woo would be the nutty professor...
...they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...
...those of you who are visitors to Cambridge, or for those students who have been hibernating, a quick summary is in order. the Gabay administration, which took office squeaky-clean, has gone through a veritable Cuisinart of political scandal this year. The gaffes have included unheeded student referenda, unfair elections, and faulty attendance-taking. Through it all, the council has handled itself with the grace of a two-legged s(tool...