Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realtor came right away for little things, but never came to fix problems with the stove," Karefa-Smart said...
Certainly, much of Wyeth's success flows from nostalgia. Many people would like to project themselves at first hand, exchanging-for half an hour -their self-cleaning ovens for the black, bulbous wood stove that squats in the Ericksons' kitchen, and their disaster-crammed TV screens for the lean prospect glimpsed from the Olsons' attic window. Small wonder, then, that Wyeth's critics have dismissed "the other Andy" (as one of them, thinking of Warhol, called him) as a fabulist, and his images as a sentimental mix of frontierland and Cold Comfort Farm. The objection...
...Berkeley, Anita Davidsen, a graduate student's wife, looks at it differently. "Now," she said, after learning to grow and can vegetables, "I can imagine how satisfying it was for great-grandmother-over a hot stove all day but socking away 30 quarts of whatever. I'm canning things to give away as Christmas gifts...
...this weather is so bad. They say they had snow over at Harper." Chili beans bubbled on the stove, and the Bible lay in the center of the kitchen table. "I thought when I was tired of working I would move out of Johnson City," she said. "But I can't. I can't leave these people. They are so wonderful...I think Lyndon felt the same...
...Betty [the nurse] and I were putting the baby to bed. We closed and bolted all the shutters except on one window where the shutters are warped and won't close. . . At ten Betty went in to the baby, shut the window first, then lit the electric stove, then turned to the bed. It was empty and the sides still up. No blankets taken. . . Evidently they got about one and a half hours' start. You know the rest...