Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British palate, created two new ones especially for English teatime, even scaled down the ingredients in the mix to fit the smaller cake tins used by British housewives. To back Betty up, General Mills spent nearly $1,000.000 on an advertising campaign to push layer cake, Boston cream pie, brownies and honey-spice cake. But no luck. Betty has been called home in disgrace, and last week General Mills was closing down its operations in Britain...
Nostalgic Pie. News of the Nijmegen recital drew a flurry of editorials in West German papers, and the program handed out in the town's Concertgebouw contained letters from German Baritone Die trich Fischer-Dieskau and Berlin Phil harmonic Manager Wolfgang Stresemann: all said that no civilized German could fail to understand Rubinstein's feelings...
Butterscotch Pie. Hamburger is an admirable choice; it embodies all the values of pop art-which is essentially a mild, unrebellious comment on the commonplace made by picturing it without any pretense of taste or orthodox technical skill. It is nothing new to transform nonart materials into works of art; but seldom have artists been so willing to forgo the transforming. They may paint a soup can and enlarge or repeat it; but the can remains a can, designed by the Campbell Soup Co. In defense, Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann says, "Objects like Coke bottles have powers. Brand products...
Satire, or a bit of wit, might have given pop art a certain charm. But the pop artists do not expose the vulgar; they merely exploit it, down to the last pecan-covered butterscotch pie...
...Grand Duchy today is a sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry...