Word: soups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sample, but people whom I happen to have gotten to know." The Oxford historian's wish is nothing short of becoming the cartographer of French passions; he writes that "if only as much were known about human passion as is known about the production of grain or sale of soup...world maps could be drawn showing the regional distribution of attitudes and temperments..." Impressionistic or not, it's a tall order...
...centuries of isolation, and then took up the study of Chinese. Uncaring, he wandered through the South Seas, one of the first Americans to explore their remote islands as a private citizen. He savored delicacies unknown in Boston ("I like squid, to my astonishment, and rather enjoy banana soup"), and he also savored the half-naked girls who anointed themselves with coconut oil and gyrated around him in a dance called the Siva ("as superb a creature here as the world has to offer...
...years the dimpled dumplings known as the Campbell's Soup kids have been among the most familiar and successful symbols in advertising. When the kids first appeared in posters on New York City trolley cars, Cy Young was on the mound for the Boston Somersets (now the Red Sox) and Enrico Caruso was winding up his first American opera season. Cherubic and definitely chubby, the kids have always conveyed the message that children raised on "M'm! M'm! Good!" Campbell's soups will grow up healthy and happy...
...times are changing, and so are the kids. Realizing that thin is in and fitness is the fashion, the Campbell Soup Co. has made its pudgy pixies taller, trimmer and more athletic. The transformation is part of the company's drive to convince the yogurt-and-vitamin crowd that soup from a can is as nutritious as anything found in a health-food store. As part of the effort, Campbell is sponsoring the U.S. figure-skating team and has managed to get its products designated the "official soups" of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The new, thinner...
...while narrating President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral for CBS Radio and shed tears on TV while listening to a women's quartet sing Down by the Old Mill Stream. He shocked (and delighted) housewives by using a toy outhouse as a comic prop. Performing a chicken noodle soup commercial for one of his TV sponsors, Lipton's, Godfrey made a cup, spooned through it, and said, "I see lots of noodles. I do not see any chicken." Then he tasted the soup and added, "Yes, that is chicken. It might have walked through the water once." Lipton...