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...rise above all this as defy it. Looking a little like the White Rock girl with a degree from Sarah Lawrence, Keaton coaxes and brasses her way through her role. At one point, she must remark of the floozy upstairs, who sports low necklines and is bedeviled by brown supermarket bags that disintegrate from below, "Oh, her cantaloupes are always falling out." Keaton pays so little mind to the awkwardness of the line, to its prewashed vulgarity, that she makes it charming. Talent like that goes beyond skill; it is a kind of bonkers genius. Jay Cocks
...remember our slogan," Mrs. Stanley Arnold, wife of the Pick-N-Pay supermarket czar who is running for President, said as she preened herself in the reflection of the marble slab next to the elevator of the Hotel Carpenter in Manchester...
...Grimes appeared tan and fit, wearing double-knit navy slacks, a brown tie and Wallabies. When this reporter and a Crimson photographer turned out to be Grimes' only listeners, the executive related and began to reminisce. He described how he first encountered "the natural thing" while working for a supermarket in California, and how he became convinced that Brigham's could develop a natural ice cream without "putting down our main product." Shaking his head sadly, he decried the recent trend among some students denigrating large businesses...
...first concert tour of the West Coast since 1948, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz almost began on a bad note. During a pre-concert shopping excursion through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before...
...27th birthday and Ernie Holmes, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was picking up the meat for his party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...