Word: melone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gleefully watches some competitors approaching bankruptcy -while his business enjoys a six-figure gross, much of it in mail orders. Other kitchenware sellers may receive orders from out of town; only Bridge regularly gets them from Paris, where gourmets request recherche items like his tiny pea-size melon scoops. Yet despite the curmudgeonly manner, Bridge has permitted success to go only to his wallet, not his head. He refuses to open a branch store, for example, because quality controls could not be maintained. Such elevated standards recently led TV Chef Julia Child to pronounce the Bridge company "reasonable, personal...
...irreducible flaw in Focus is that nothing really happens. The only movement in the play is polemical, and that is more lateral than ascendant. It resembles what was called in grade school parlance a Vegetable Play: "I am a carrot... I am a string bean... I am a cranshaw melon." The characters announce their problems rather than portray them, and then move to renounce them, rather than resolve them. When Toni's friend Nina announces "I have confidence, I'm wild, I'm radiant, I'm magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting...
...only a very small part of the agricultural industry." This statement is true for the industry as a whole. But Mr. Ferrara's implication that it holds for growers whose workers the UFW is organizing is incorrect and misleading. Corporate farms in California account for 90% of the melon crop and 30% of the citrus crop, two of the main areas of UFW activity. Two corporations control over a third of the nation's production of leafy green vegetables, another key area of UFW organizing. (National, 6/15/71). And Gallo wine, currently the main target of the UFW boycott in Cambridge...
Despite the President's early observation that he intended to make his own breakfast, this service is now usually provided by a Jeevesian attendant, who brings him his orange juice, sliced melon, tea and English muffins piping hot, margarined and ready to be marmaladed. (Last week's presidential muffin-toasting performance was a special show put on in response to numerous requests by photographers.) A man of enormous energy and appetite, Ford nevertheless sticks strictly to Dr. Lukash's regimen, even manfully downing the Nixonian lunch of cottage cheese (Chef Haller says that the President has never...
...Lettieri may be the heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance. But the sadistic gleam in Lettieri's eye burns bright through a scene that proves there is entirely too much juice and rind in our movies today...