Word: robotized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cuisinart vs. Robot-Coupe...
...grates to produce treats ranging from paté to peanut butter. Cuisinarts, Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., which sells processors of various sizes, priced from $100 to $260, had good reason to launch the commercial blitz. Its status as the Cadillac of kitchen cutters is being seriously challenged by Robot-Coupe, the French firm whose founder, Pierre Verdun, invented the machines...
Food processors became a favorite tool of American gourmets after Carl Sontheimer, 67, a portly retired electron ics engineer from Connecticut, saw them at a French housewares show in 1971. Sontheimer soon signed an agreement with the manufacturer, Robot-Coupe, to market the processors in the U.S. under the trade name Cuisinart. Food mavens like Julia Child and Craig Claiborne immediately pronounced the machine magnifique, and sales took...
Galloping galaxies! Here come that midget robot and the tin man with the English accent again, along with Luke, Han Solo and the rebellious rose of Alderaan, Princess Leia. Star Wars is back, but with a difference. This time it is on National Public Radio, and instead of being presented within the confines of a two-hour movie, it has been expanded into a serial: 13 half-hour cliffhangers...
...Copacabana (site of a huge brawl) to the kitchen and dinner table. Cathy Moriarty, stunning in her debut as LaMotta's wife Vicki, is as beautiful, in her way, as Taxi Driver's Cybill Shepard; but for the pristine campaign worker, Scorsese has substituted a passive, pliable coital robot. And it all ends with LaMotta, less than glorious in his heydey, the Raging Whale, even painful to look at, unable to get around his titanic belly to hug his brother. Everything is vile, and the only relief is vapidity...