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...Ling clambered down from his seat on the right arm of the Father, and disappeared into his tent. "He's getting his wok," Lori said in her gravelly voice. "We're going to have the traditional revolutionary meal of his ancestors." She paused. "They ate it before the Big One in '48." Too emerged with the huge dome upside down over his head, looking like a toadstool...

Author: By Peter R. Reynolds, | Title: Tenting Tonight | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...hung around, he might have called himself Collins. By the end of the volume does the reader feel a giddy temptation to throw away his own first name and mess around with the letters of the rest? As De Gramont-Morgan proves, that requires a lot of thought. - S. Wok (formerly John Skow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

Children are also heeding the Pied Piper's call to wok and roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love in the Kitchen | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Another onlooker said the demonstration had inspired him to go shopping for a wok and a Chinese cleaver...

Author: By Patricia C. Gadecki, | Title: Chef Displays Techniques | 10/22/1977 | See Source »

...moving to sell to them in their home towns too. Current issues of McCall's, Town & Country and Glamour magazines carry four-page abbreviated Bloomingdale's catalogues offering 29 selections that can be ordered by mail from the store's "Christmas in New York Collection." Among them: a "Wonder Wok" for $28, Aramis "executive" soaps for "your favorite male chauvinist," an electronic calculator in a silver Tiffany case for $150 and Rudi Gernreich-styled underwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Leadin Toward A Green Christmas | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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