Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cartier saw Johnson as a "professional politician" completely lacking in "the serene authority of Eisenhower, the charm and romanticism of Kennedy." Cartier found something almost sinister in the fact that Lady Bird, upon reading "Quiche Lorraine" on a White House menu, scratched it out and wrote in: "Cheese Custard Pie." Cartier has since come around to an appreciation of Johnson that might satisfy even Johnson. "Because of him, I see America in the process of launching into a second revolution," says Cartier, "a peaceful revolution brought about with increasing worker ownership of capital, the triumph of free enterprise. Look...
...scales a little bit," he says, "it will sound like I'm making fun of them". Sometimes, in Wolfe's description, these drop out forms seem as natural and organic a part of the contemporary scene as any aspect of that Mom's pie America which he dismisses like a crumb from his roll-away sleeve. At other moments, however, they resemble isolated islands of vitality just spoiling for a good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today against yesteryear, WAR. And in any such...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hip pie, the parent and the child. Henry Fon da, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...
There was Oklahoma's hearty Governor Henry Bellmon, 44, running around the island of Kyushu handing out Japanese-language recipes for "Okrahoma" pecan pie. The mystified Japanese smiled politely, and finally someone pointed out that hardly anyone in Japan had ever heard of pecan pie. Well, boomed Bellmon as he wound up a U.S.-Japan Governors' conference tour, "that's all the more reason to push it. Why, man, this is virgin country for Oklahoma pecans...
...newlyweds are living in a Greenwich Village loft that looks as if its only previous occupant had been a huge wedge of pie. The bridegroom (Richard Jordan) is the sort of lad who is so taken with the way the light falls on his wife's blue-beaded necklace that he is wearing it. Furthermore, the boy seems to have an excellent chance of remaining in the no-income bracket, his only known assets being far-out light verse, arty photography, folk singing and whacking together his own furniture. Though Fonda's mind and face boggle...