Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Onassis Knocks. It sounds dreary, but Erma can stir smiles with columns on how to handle a dirty oven ("If it won't catch fire today, clean it tomorrow"), hand-me-down clothes, daytime naps, gardening, sibling rivalry ("Who gets the fruit cocktail with the lone cherry on top?"), chewing gum, home barbering and the ids of March. "If a woman is ever to have an affair" a recent column began, "it will be in March. Psychologically, it is a perfect month. The bowling tournaments are over. The white sales on bedding are past. Your chest cold has stabilized...
...show might have built more impact from a brazen dynamo in the role of Mama Minnie Marx, àla Ethel Merman in Gypsy. As it is, Shelley Winters ambles through the part rather than animating it. She seems preoccupied, as if she smelled something burning in the oven rather than...
...eaten, and yogurt with kumquats and plum wine from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a vast baked pumpkin, so large it had barely squeezed in and out of Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty-three summers, Sam Sam the sculptor man and manager of motor hotels and graduate...
...Hugh Hutchinson, wife of a retired Air Force colonel, ordered a self-cleaning oven for her new Atlanta town house. Workmen jammed the oven into a wall opening that had been cut for a smaller appliance, thereby bending the oven out of shape. They removed it and more carefully installed another that turned out to have a defective thermostat. A repairman pulled out the thermostat and broke it. He summoned a colleague, who arrived with a new thermostat that was 15 inches too short. The two procured yet another thermostat, spent an afternoon trying to install it, and after much...
...good mystery story is like apple pie, said Erie Stanley Gardner. "I could give you all the ingredients, tell you how hot your oven must be and how long to leave the pie in. It might come out good; it might taste lousy. But if you get a good piece of pie and eat it after a good meal, you'll like apple...