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The celebrity chef launched the gourmet-food craze, made American cooking respectable, empowered housewives, and legitimized public television.
Several British papers carried a report Monday that Britain's largest supermarket chain has asked fruit growers to supply it with smaller melons after research indicated that housewives subconsciously compared them to the size of their breasts.
In colonial days, housewives typically did spinning, weaving, and tailoring for the family.
One True Thing doesn't employ fantasy (at least not overtly) but tries to stir similar regrets about the feminist dismissal of housewives: You moved to New York and the heartless magazine world, you dressed in black, you rejected Mom.
This is odd because transvestites are openly accepted in Thai society, and male homosexuals are not considered—as they are by some Japanese housewives I have met—as wanting to cross dress.