Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean Mantelet was running a small plant that made hand-operated kitchen utensils when he decided ten years ago to try his luck with electric appliances...
...shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with clenched hair." A clenched-jaw finale finds...
...work. This week's show focuses fascinatingly on Household Poet-Critic John Ciardi; among its vignettes: a sound track of the artist reading his own domestic verse ("Men marry what they need, I marry you"), while the camera watches his wife pouring herself coffee in their Metuchen, N.J., kitchen. Among future subjects: Painter Leonard Baskin, Indian Composer Ravi Shankar, Author P. G. Wodehouse, Film Maker Jean Renoir, and Metropolitan Opera Impresario Rudolf Bing...
...about to introduce with a "tiny flavor buds" campaign. Instant Maxwell bloomed. The company's coffee sales jumped from 10% of the U.S. market to a commanding 34% , brought in one-third of General Foods sales ($1.4 billion last year). Says Cook, a modest man in the kitchen: "I think instant Maxwell pulled me along with...
Returning to their rooms, they clipped on their nose plugs, grabbed their life preservers and flippers, and set off through the slimy deep of the streets to other Central Kitchen Houses, where dinner was served as usual...