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...good cop.. and 'cause of your cute ass." An aging homosexual tells Benson and Kerwin, "You have got to stick it through. Hang on tight, tight, tight," Benson tells his partner." "Those two faggots look alike. All faggots look alike." The two follow a suspect into a supermarket. While Benson watches diligently, Kerwin busies himself with detergents. "Are we on a case or what?!" Benson irritatedly asks. "Well," Kerwin responds plaintively, "I'm behind in the laundry...
Another familiar company now in trouble is the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., once the largest supermarket chain in the U.S. It is shutting the doors on outlets at the rate of ten a month, and Chairman James Wood, 52, has promised another 400 closings, which will bring the size of the chain down to 1,200. A&P once had 3,600 stores in the U.S. The company has suffered nine successive quarters of losses...
...entered the supermarket I saw a line of about 50 people leading into a room, from which shoppers were emerging one at a time with string bags full of mandarin oranges. As soon as I had taken my place, the line stopped moving. A whole minute passed, then five. From where we were standing we could not see the door, so the man in front of me said he would go look if I held his place. "Both doors are closed," he said when he returned, "and nobody knows why." In a voice meant to carry toward the front...
...thought of eating salted nuts makes me think I'm eating brine." Most of the advice Taylor received would be useful anywhere. Avoid cheese, and if you cannot do that, at least do not buy processed slices, which have far more sodium than the block. In the supermarket, do not buy any product if salt is listed among the first three ingredients...
...water" sub-plot of this forked work has a complexity too. In fact, it gives Cheever an ideal playground for assembling one of his patented concatenations of weird events. A down and out barber shoots his dog in full sight of his neighbors, two women wrestle in a supermarket, a baby is mistakenly abandoned. Also, Cheever cannot was quite to eloquent nor so humorous about the country side as he can about sex. But he succeeds in constructing his labyrinth of characters and circumstances more significantly and puts forth a well-crafted threnody for a landscape he holds dear...