Word: buttering
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...worse than usual these days, because of hoarding inspired by Solidarity's strike threats last month. "People are buying three or four times what they need," complained a Warsaw housewife. The shortages, combined with panic buying, last week caused the government to introduce rationing of meat and butter. The endless lines, as always, are a source of a Polish staple-black humor. One recent joke: If the Russians invade, why will they send our economic planners to Siberia...
When the Karasiewiczes were asked what they desired the most, Krzysztof replied: "I hope things will be better; we would like to live in peace, without lines at the stores, and with more free time." Said Maria: "I want butter, and meat -not a fur coat...
...stop for coffee in the Main Street Cafe indicates that fantasy was not exhausted on the buildings. The menu still offers such sandwiches as "Amy's All American" (peanut butter with optional jelly), "Billy's Road to Recovery" (cold turkey), and a green salad called "Rosalynn's Remedy." Except for the silent caricatures on souvenirs and the now touching postcard photographs of a younger, happier Jimmy and an unharried Billy, that might well be all I'd have seen or heard of the Carters, unless I'd asked...
...young spymaster for the U.S. in World War II, he wore Navy blues that were usually spotted with crumbs, peanut butter and cigarette ashes. But behind that disheveled appearance lay a keen and free-wheeling mind that, by war's end, enabled him to put together a network of 150 agents in Nazi Germany. Now, after a highly successful career as tax lawyer, businessman and Government official, William Joseph Casey, 67, still looking rumpled in the best-quality dark blue suit, is returning to his first profession, as director of Central Intelligence...
...powered lights on a performer from different directions, he is doing with vision essentially the same as Breuer is with hearing: manipulating the path a performance travels on its way from the actor to the audience's senses. Breuer's experiments of today may become tomorrow's bread-and-butter theater...