Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dave [Harvard squash Coach Dave Fish] looked at me," Robie remembers, "changed my swing, and taught me what seemed like a million and two things about squash. After throwing the kitchen sink at me, he let me digest it, and four years later, I started playing great squash...
...Français Maestro Banchet puts on a gala performance for two seatings a night, six nights a week. From noon to midnight he prowls the stainless-steel corridors of his ultramodern kitchen, setting a whirlwind pace for his 32-member staff. "Sacrebleu! Sacrebleu!" he shouts at a sous-chef when something goes wrong. One minute he is throwing whole fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here...
...wife Jane is a teacher's aide at a nearby school. Together they earn $40,000 a year. They live with their eight-year-old son Peter in a handsomely renovated Victorian house in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. They have a new car and a new kitchen, and their lawn has no crab grass. Peter has just learned to do handstands. They look like the All-American Family living the All-American Dream. They are also broke. They are not only broke, but $18,000 in debt. "The question is," says Jane, a pug-nosed brunette in preppy...
Because they had bought an old house, they had to do a lot of renovating, and the money started flowing out. "Just for screws and bolts and paint and electric drills," Steve recalls. "All on the Sears credit card." The kitchen seemed "unusable," so they ran up more than $ 1,000 in restaurant bills during the first two months, then borrowed $2,000 to build a new kitchen. In the old apartment kitchen, in what Jane remembers as "the golden age," she had always stuck to a budget and kept separate envelopes for different kinds of expenses on a shelf...
...World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton will sing and dance their way through The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Even so, Poltergeist's intelligence in confecting disaster, its honest laughs and spine-snapping chills-from upended kitchen chairs to ghostly vapors and a gaping, horrid hell mouth-should lead it to the head of the class...