Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look hard around the house to find other signs of big spending. Shyla Irving, a professional photographer, now has a well-equipped darkroom; she recently put a $1,000 lens on an old camera. The kitchen is dominated by a cast-iron Garland, a gas stove prized by serious cooks. Outside on a lawn, surrounded by a neighbor's fields and orchards, there is something that at first appears to be a helicopter landing pad. It is a wrestling...
...South Hadley, Mass., and stints at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, Irving typed away in a small shed, the same one that overlooks the pool. There was no pool then, and the future did not seem to promise one. He now works mainly in a study above the kitchen. Weather permitting, one of his three typewriters can be found set up out of doors...
...still sparing no detail, he gives his own story the Bishop treatment. "I reached into my sagging trouser pockets and pulled out a kitchen match," he writes of his first encounter, at age 14, with an unclad female in a dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father...
...garden for Highgrove from the Cranleigh Group of Women's Institutes in Surrey! A lace cushion from the Royal School of Needlework! Two cases of specially blended 'C and D' malt whisky from Macallans Distillery! And - wait until you ladies see this - from Geba, in Germany, kitchen furnishings for every culinary pursuit you can imagine, valued at a grand total of $20,000! And, if you think that's something, just take a look at what we've got behind the curtain...
...correct this situation, Charles and Diana raised eyebrows by registering a list of wedding gifts at the General Trading Company, a tony London emporium with a royal warrant to supply fancy goods. Gift givers who are bored by silver and feel that the Germans have pretty well swept the kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth...