Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning, outside St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Detroit, about 20 men slouch against a wall, waiting for Father Tom Lumpkin to open a soup kitchen. Some are the traditional clients: winos and street people, refugees from a coherent, workaday life. But these days there is a new and growing group whose presence seems to Father Lumpkin a shocking sign of Michigan's economic blues. They are men in their prime, sturdy, able but unemployed, and baffled to find themselves taking charity...
...Design and construction was getting underway on seven new Houses, and as the architects for Eliot House were drawing up their plans, Lowell quietly pulled them aside and arranged for certain rooms to be designed and left without a specific purpose. The architects obediently laid out plans for a kitchen, a dining room, and a lounge in M-entry, and no more was said about the matter...
...about a dozen casually dressed young men and women are sitting around a U-shaped wooden table in Eliot House, eating a meal of beef stew, salad, and liqueur-laced icecream, served to them by a staff of two who pop in and out of an adjoining kitchen. It is one of three meals the group has each week around the table. The previous night, they donned suits and gowns for a weekly formal dinner; three days later, they will return for another informal lunch...
Realtors have labeled those willing to share ownership and living arrangements as the "mingles market." Typically, mingles houses feature two or more identically sized master bedrooms connected to private baths, plus a shared kitchen and combination living and dining room. Houses and condominiums built for mingles usually are no bigger than four or five rooms. To preserve a semblance of privacy, the two master bedrooms are usually put at opposite ends of the house. "We believe people will settle for less if a home fits their life-style," says mingles developer Rick Sullivan, 36, who plans with partner Herman Porten...
...callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley's predilection for bizarre Southern Gothic extravagance is the death of her horse Billy Boy. Her pet since childhood, Billy Boy has recently been struck by lightning. To top that calamity, Old Granddaddy has been hospitalized with "blood vessels popping in his brain...