Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the curtain rises, the time is 1900, and Cinderella-here named Georgina-is in "the white folks' kitchen," mopping. Her mama, a five-by-five fortress of a woman (Lillian Hayman), argues that a mop is a Negro girl's best friend. But Georgina (Uggams) begs her prince charming, a Pullman porter named Clem (Robert Hooks), to take her away from all this. Together, they take the overground railway North...
...British are not notably enthralled with Lyndon Johnson. But when iconoclastic Director Joan Littlewood brought Barbara Garson's Mac-Bird to town, the critics threw every pan in the kitchen. After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish." The London Times sniffed: "It is pointless to get too indignant. The production successfully torpedoes what was already a fragile and leaky craft...
...renovators' secret weapon was the "drop-in," a stack of boxlike prefabricated units containing kitchen and bathroom. One by one, the units were lowered by a 250-ft. crane through holes cut in the roof and upper floors, and placed inside. Thus, each apartment got a brand-new, modern service core, including a 20-in. gas range, 10-cu.-ft. refrigerator, stainless-steel sink and complete bathroom with tub, shower, porcelain-finished bowl and toilet...
Bernstein's score includes some lovely tunes, the book successfully trades on skimpy plot and cabdriver jokes, and this winning production provides as good an incentive as Quincy's private kitchen for a trip to the Quincy dining hall...
Only in the kitchen has the company stuck to Russell Stover's old ways. It still sweetens with much more pure chocolate than sugar, uses no artificial flavorings and, despite the added cost, insists on hand-dipping its chocolates. After all, says Ward, candy buyers "are much more quality conscious than ever before. They have more money to spend." Evidently. In the fall Ward will open new candymaking plants in Virginia and South Carolina...