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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-dressed, mostly well-heeled students, including six men, prepare all their own food at home without household help. They range from sophisticated bees fins who have taken expensive courses on the Continent to young marrieds and a couple of high school students, one of whom is considering a career in cooking. Steve and Mary Stover treated each other to a Hazan class as a tenth-wedding-anniversary present. Several students say they regard cooking as a form of therapy. Indeed, one student suffering "a late 20s crisis" was actually referred to the school by her psychiatrist. A young real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Saut | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Leader Howard-Baker ranked third in the preference poll with 14%, while former Democratic Texas Governor (and former Treasury Secretary) John Connally placed fourth with 10% of those questioned. One understandable handicap for some of the likely Republican contenders at this early stage is that they are far from household names. Even Baker, despite his prominent Senate position, is unknown to 51% of all voters. Far less known are Texan George Bush (65%) and Illinois' Philip Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter vs. Reagan: Dead Heat | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...background of World War 1--a conflict whose cataclysmic effects were very much realized by its contemporaries--has caused some critics to feel that the weird household represents the disintegrating pre-war society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them. Hearbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Hearbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie...

Author: By Scott A. Rozenberg and Troy Segal, S | Title: The Best of all Possible Locations... ...Pinball's Better in a Fishbowl | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...background of World War I--a conflict whose cataclysmic effects were very much realized by its contemporaries--has caused some critics to feel that the weird household represents the disintegrating pre-war society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them, Heartbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Heartbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: King Arthur in the Union | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Flourocarbons are believed to harm the Earth's protective ozone shield. Deodorants, anti-perspirants, hair sprays, colognes, insecticides, spray paints, air fresheners, furniture polishes and household cleaners used flourocarbons widely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fluorocarbons Banned Totally After Two-Year Phase Out | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

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