Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many a man groans and bears it when he comes home to find a TV dinner in the oven. Not Pierre Franey. The first time he found frozen dinners in his house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like...
...youth or simply been shanghaied back to the silly season. Taking up his assigned identity as an artist, Rock frets because he cannot paint. Beside the sea, he meets a strange young woman (Salome Jens) who has apparently found peace by abandoning her husband, two children and a wall oven. Together they attend a nudie bacchanal that ends with everyone trampling grapes in a large...
...dank day in February 1963, a pretty young mother of two children was found in a London flat with her head in the oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...
...Union Jack, which had flown over British Guiana for 152 years, slid slowly down the pole-to be replaced by a new five-color (green, red, yellow, black, white) flag. Thus-with the Duke and Duchess of Kent looking on as Britain's official representatives-did the tiny, oven-hot colony mark its independence last week and start life anew as the nation of Guyana (pronounced guy-an-uh, meaning "land of waters" in an Amerindian dialect) and as the 23rd member of the British Commonwealth...
...reply to Mr. Juniper's letter in defense of Austin [April 1]: Although "a little old Texas mouse" may be "a friendly critter," one that I happen to like, I was painfully surprised to find that a whole tribe of friendly critters had set up housekeeping in the oven, closets and dog-food bags in my brand-new house; they forced me, contrary to my inclinations, to start a trap-hunting campaign. To be sure, mousetraps are rather cheap in Texas: 19? a pair. In my years in Europe, New England and Tennessee, I have neither become acquainted with...