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...model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when she was in California, and she was about to drive to the supermarket-which was across the street, literally." Allen pauses and then emphasizes his point: "Very California...
...Goldsmith founded Caven-ham Ltd. which, through canny acquisitions, has become Europe's third largest (after Unilever and Nestlé) food processor. Extending his empire, he then purchased Grand Union, the U.S. supermarket chain. Two years ago, he became chairman of Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. when his friend Jim Slater, because of some freewheeling deals in the Far East, was forced to resign-driving one of the hottest investment companies of the 1960s to near collapse...
Goretta works in an exhilaratingly quick, dry, uninflected style. He seems to have a horror of squeezing an emotion too hard or dwelling on a scene too long. He depicts a holdup with no more than a breathless glimpse of Pierre fleeing across a supermarket parking lot. He foreshadows the death of Pierre's father by juxtaposing sequences of youthful high spirits on a bicycle with views of the immobile face...
Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took steps two weeks ago to ban it on questionable anticancer grounds, saccharin suddenly has more friends than an Irish bartender on St. Patrick's Day. Millions of skeptical Americans rushed to supermarkets last week to stock up on thousands of saccharin-sweetened products-diet soft drinks, canned fruits, desserts-before the FDA's ban goes into effect, which might happen on July 1. "We had our shelves almost cleaned off," said a Denver grocer, Ross McCotter. Said Houston Supermarket Owner John T. Butera: "A man called this morning and asked...
...wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest folk hero," the editors of this collection write...