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...does none of these things. In her tight black stretch pants she recklessly sleds down the hill with the baby and feeds him Frosted Flakes when the pot roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life On Hemlock Street | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...advance. In Romania and Bulgaria, even a room at a hotel does not guarantee a visitor a seat in the hotel's restaurant. In Poland one may have to stand in line for barszcz (beet soup) and golabki (meat-filled rolled cabbage). In Prague if one hankers after crisp roast duck and three kinds of dumplings at a restaurant with a view of Hradcany Castle and the Vltava River, one must reserve several days ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Lanes into The Past | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...picture TV has often painted of it. Was Dad once a pillar of wisdom and understanding? In the new shows he is either a slob or an oaf. Did Mom used to be the nurturing guardian of home and hearth? Now if she even knows how to put a roast in the oven, she could sear it with her sarcasm. TV kids have always been mischievous, but now they are bratty and disrespectful as well. Standards of decorum have gone out the window too: Dad burps out loud at the dinner table; a kid snaps photos of his mom shaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Home Is Where The Venom Is | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

BOSTON--In a morning of wry wit, green ties and Irish sing-alongs, Massachusetts politicians gathered to roast each other yesterday at state Senate President William Bulger's annual St. Patrick's Day Breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Pols Get Up Their Irish | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...while one might think that a person who makes his living on fowl might opt for a Thanks-giving roast, Silver says that's not the case...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: GOBBLE, GOBBLE | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

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