Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 40s, offers this embittered apologia for coming: "The economy is lousy. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be here." By day's end perhaps 300 people will have been fed at St. Peter's, four times the number who were served when the kitchen opened in 1976. A thousand more will drift into other kitchens across Detroit. They are among the most visible, and the most humbled, of the jobless in a state where one in every eight workers is unemployed...
...building's kitchen was commandeered by Brezhnev's personal chef, Ivan Biryukov, who prepared meals carefully supervised by physicians from food flown in from Moscow. The Soviet leader even ate Biryukov's concoction-a kind of puree of cooked vegetables-at the official dinner. When Biryukov was not in the kitchen, it was kept locked and guarded...
Lillian Menasche Katz, 54, started the $42 million Lillian Vernon Corp. in the back of her former husband's dress shop in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with an initial investment of $2,000. Her current offerings are utilitarian (a wall-mounted kitchen scale), frivolous (an initialed toothpaste tube squeezer) or elegant (a nickel-plated travel shaving brush...
...bookcase, snooze in the laundry basket. They also occupy the dining room table, and the childless Milsters no longer eat there. Litter pans crowd the walls, the halls and the corners. Food and water bowls are set out in odd places. Cats suffering from infectious diseases inhabit the kitchen. A dozen of the menagerie are cripples, three are one-eyed, one is a dwarf, and one has been classified as a homosexual. Many of the stragglers are brought in by neighborhood youngsters who have heard about the Milsters' cat colony. The cats' names are chosen eclectically: Nanki...
Garfield inhabits a kitchen apocalypse of shredded poultry and scarred humans. Garfield prefers pasta to Purina, pugilism to purring. Although he jeers at mental and physical exercise, his creator is charged with energy. The tall, thin, blond and balding Davis gets to work in his ranch-style studio near Muncie, Ind., by 6:30 most mornings He draws for eleven hours a day and then manages to go on to racquetball, chess and reading self-improvement books. "You know," he says, "things like So You Want to Be a Brain Surgeon." His early career probably should have included...