Word: do-it-yourself
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...learn how to go low sodium without having to eat like swamis or food faddists, Americans are buying books, taking courses and exchanging gourmet gossip. The skill and zeal they display would have been impossible before the country became fascinated, for other reasons, with do-it-yourself health and haute cuisine. Says John Terry, consultant to the Allen Canning Company in Siloam Springs, Ark.: "The whole convenience idea-Just Heat, Then Serve-isn't as big now. More consumers are ready to do their own seasoning...
...procedure amounts to an elaborate game. One of the great players was Benjamin Franklin, whom Lindberg hails as America's classic "do-it-yourself Self." Popular history tells a rags-to-riches tale that parallels the birth of the nation. History is not incorrect, though Franklin's Autobiography and his how-to text The Way to Wealth reveal a great practitioner of situation ethics. His affable description of "one of the first errata of my life" cannot disguise that he employed a highhanded scheme to break his legal obligation to complete an apprenticeship at his brother...
That so many Americans should be transforming their features, and futures, to compete for jobs and mates is a dramatic development after postwar rich living and the automobile had all but taken the country's breath (and legs) away. But America always had a weakness for do-it-yourself salvation and made
Wallace and André, in short, are two Woody Allen characters in need of an intelligently ironic author to deflate them. Since he is no where to be found, audiences are advised to bring along their do-it-yourself satire kits...
...handful of which do seem interesting enough to be memorable, can, given sufficient effort and imagination from the reader, furnish the tools to create the picture of what it was like to know Fiedler and the Pops--but the image remains blurred and ineffective for those without the urge to do-it-yourself...