Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delightful nostalgia, a reminder of times past when a family could afford to eat without thinking about the price. The customers were smiling in Atlanta, something few Americans have done in grocery stores for years. But with the sale over, reality - and inflation - returned. Chicken was going for 54? per Ib., five pounds of flour for 98?, and a six-pack of soda...
...lines of worry and aggravation engraved on Cohen's face are all too common to middle-aged businessmen for me to question the truth of his counsel to the young Kravitz. In the dog-eat-dog world of business, the skeletons pile up rapidly in the closets of seemingly respectable men who expose themselves to the fluctuations of the marketplace...
...character, Rhoda's ma may be predictable, but good, realistic, almost earthy comedy writing on television is not. Neither is the show's third major character, Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). She is sleepy-voiced, sad-eyed and overweight from trying to eat her way out of a mild but chronic depression. In short, like so many characters emerging from the Moore atelier, she is a type we know better from our daily rounds than we do from our nightly viewing: an individual waging a quiet, stubborn struggle to stay on the sunny side...
...seeing this week?" Sgt. Brownwen poured down her list. "First aid training, physical training, weapons, training, the WAC museum, evening retreat..."Colonel Merriweather looked at me in polite disbelief. "But there are trainees in all of those activities." She made a concession to me, though. "We'll let you eat in the messhall...
...There are three things that you can do which will be helpful," Weissbecker will write to undergraduates with board contracts, "assist us in eliminating waste by taking only what you can eat; please do not take food from the dining rooms; remember that unauthorized guests or meals taken dilute the value you receive from your board fee." (Weissbecker claims that uninvited guests who do not pay for their meals are paid for directly by the students...