Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of stages showing American home life (appliance division) at 20-year intervals from the turn of the century to the present day. Moving, talking, life-size Disney dummies inhabit the sets, which unintentionally plug nonprogress by going from a scene that recalls the cozy charms of the icebox, coal stove, gaslight era to one that spells out only the cool convenience of a modern electric home...
...revolve around a series of stages showing American home life (appliance division) at 20-year intervals from the turn of the century to the present. Moving, talking, life-size dummies inhabit the sets, which unintentionally plug nonprogress by going from a scene that recalls the cozy charms of the icebox, wood stove, gaslight era to one that all too plainly spells out the sterile joys and chilly conveniences of a modern electric home that has little taste and no charm...
First the man crows about the faith ful pump in his sink, the new icebox and his coal-burning stove. The year is about 1898. All these relics are choreo graphed to gush rusty water, pop open, or glow genially while he talks. The revolving audience sees him in three additional incarnations-in the '20s, the '40s, and today in his ultimate, modern G.E. home, with indirect colored lighting and clear-plastic, form-fitting kitchen chairs. The older appliances are wonders to behold. But the plastic man's life gets duller as it progresses...
...points with a kind of muddleheaded nonchalance that invites others to feel that if she can do it, anybody can. As she putters over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles her. If a filling drools out onto a baking sheet or artichoke leaves uncooperatively start to flop...
...attitudes that includes a taste for doxies and fancy barbers. Papa Cobb takes it pretty hard, but his highest loyalty is to his stomach. Peering into the refrigerator, he recoils at the sight of all the foil-wrapped leftovers, cries: "This ain't an icebox, it's an aluminum mine...