Word: kitchen
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Scarcity in a Show Place. Like most Americans in Moscow, the Atkinsons lived in the large, gloomy maze called the Metropole Hotel. Their one small room was kitchen, dining room, bedroom, study and part-time office. Meals were prepared on a one-plate electric stove and Mrs. Atkinson remembers in detail her daily forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts...
Billy the Kid. That is life in the "upholstered trap" fashioned for himself by William Samuel Rosenberg, born in 1899 on a kitchen table on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father was a peddler who would rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...funny," the late Gertrude Stein wrote, "you have to take everything in the kitchen and put it on the floor." Just about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt) could easily be added by the listener. The occasion was the first performance of Gertrude Stein's last finished work, a pleasant and unpretentious little opera, The Mother...
Although all College eating places will close on Saturday, May 31, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, and Winthrop will reopen on Monday June 16. All five dining halls are served by the central House kitchen...