Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pass judgment. But a more fundamental problem is the way judges, particularly older ones, perceive their role. By training and tradition they are judges, not administrators or managers. That helps to explain why modern technology and management techniques have been almost totally ignored by the courts. "In a supermarket age we are like a merchant trying to operate a cracker barrel corner grocery store with the methods and equipment of 1900," said Burger in 1970. He spoke from experience. When he came on the court in 1969, he asked to have some papers duplicated. The clerk had to explain...
...exports of U.S. farm products are the best hope for reducing the nation's trade deficit, which is caused largely by oil imports. Since America's appetite for foreign oil will remain intense, it is necessary to sell more food abroad even if that means slightly higher supermarket bills at home...
Sellars comes into his own in the second act. Futuristic fantasy is more suited to his playland theatrical style. His actors, done up in round bug suits with mops on their heads, race around the stage with shopping carts. The supermarket motif is reinforced in an incessant procession of slides of dog food, toilet paper, peas, and Burry cookies, and in the soothing strains of Muzaked "Hey Jude," "Those Were The Days," and "Lara's Theme." It's tempting to settle back and watch the ads parade by--it may be monotonous but there is a certain sense...
...large and small tragedies. In "The White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels 'real bad' about picking off the family of five...
...music. In his early teens he joined a band called the Black Rockers ("We wore black turtlenecks, black pants and black shoes, and we still weren't very good"), subsequently left school remembering the advice of a youth employment officer: "Have you ever thought about working in a supermarket...