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Opportunities for creative problem solving abound, as I have been placed in charge of procuring foodstuffs for the kitchen. However, with a slightly limited budget, and a mandate from the powers that be to prevent an outbreak of scurvy above all else, I have become well acquainted with the phrase, “Price reduced for immediate sale...
...modest affair. at a recent lunch, the Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and some guests from TIME were fed scrambled eggs, bacon, burgers and fries. It was a menu with a message-that Arroyo is scrupulously guarding the nation's scant resources. It's easy to see why her kitchen is engaged in this game of culinary p.r. Despite a solid growth rate of around 5%, the economy is a mess, hobbled by 11% unemployment, 8% inflation, and a crushing $70 billion in national debt. Adding to the perception that the Philippines might come apart at the seams are allegations...
...acrobatics," by which the circus shills mean the 15-member Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. The booking took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen and put in a VCR on which the visitors play almost nothing but Kung Fu movies. "We've been a big hit in every town we visited," notes Deputy Director Xu Zhiyuan. After ten cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely...
Table Money has its affectionate touches, like the etiquette for throwing out the trash: "The proper Glendale housewife keeps such a small garbage can in the kitchen that it must be emptied four and five times a day. The sweater tossed over the shoulders goes with the chore." There is a salute to the Delahanty Institute, which prepared generations of young men for the police- and fire-department exams, and a bitterly funny scene in which two sandhogs find themselves in a midtown Manhattan bar filled with three-piece suits and attaché cases...
...each succeeding issue. Somewhere along the line, "Woman's" inexplicably got changed to "Homemaker's." No one seems to remember why the switch, but, in any event, small potatoes; the newspaper has always been very much a homemade affair. It has been known to get put together on various kitchen tables...