Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slug of beer. The two men cross the old newspapers in the living room to enter the kitchen. They attack the cabinets, the ice box, the cake, the ham, and stuff home a midnight feast. Light another cigarette. Look at the old headlines. Flip through an old magazine. Yawn. Suck on a cigarette. And one of them sighs, "Jesus. I wonder what the Russians are going to do? I mean, what do they really want to do? Do they want oil? Do they want the Middle East? The world...
...that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living made it impossible to keep the kitchen gardens and chicken coops to which they were accustomed. Critics have thus charged the Communists with seeking to impose middle-class solutions to housing problems without regard for the people's lifestyle...
...biggest bomb was Steven Spielberg's World War II farce, 1941, which cost Universal Pictures nearly $40 million, including promotional costs. "It was overdone, overproduced, overeverything," says Goldman. "It was like building a $1 million mousetrap to catch one mouse in the kitchen." Universal's president, Sidney Scheinberg, argues that "it's too early to say" how the picture will do and suggests that neither Universal nor Columbia, who co-financed the film, will lose any money. Yet movie analysts reckon that the film may have to gross as much as $100 million before the studios...
...wife Rachel (Sussanah York) and Crossley, the mysterious visitor who descends upon them. In the opening scene of Crossley's narrative, we see Anthony making highly-amplified recordings of marbles rolling in tin pans, insects, and various animals being brushed. We see Rachel preparing dinner in their picturesque kitchen on some tiny English seaside village. We see Anthony bicycle into church to play the organ and to meet a mysterious other woman (whom we will never know anything about...
...FRIED CHICKEN). It is still possible to buy certain foreign-made luxury items, such as French perfume, that have been smuggled in from Europe. Sidewalk vendors with boiled sugar beets, pistachio nuts and sunflower seeds still do business in the streets. Peddlers hawk everything from blue jeans to plastic kitchen utensils. Even some discotheques continue to operate, illegally but discreetly, serving soda instead of booze. But there is a flourishing black market in liquor: Scotch, bootlegged from Iraq, sells for $60 to $90 a bottle and moonshine vodka from...