Word: supermarkets
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cinem Duty Free Shop, where he can use den Travelerscheck. His wife will learn of a nearby Beauty farm, where das Glamourgirl can enjoy das Bodybuilding or ein Facelift. On her way back, she will be able to do some one-stop-shopping in dem Basementstore or in dem Supermarket. While she is occupied, her husband, if he happens to be ein Playboy or ein Ladykiller, may have einen Long-drink Extra Dry and chase eine Sexbombe...
...they tend to be abrasive, and we meet our fellow being not to share and exchange but encounter him as an impediment or nuisance-"making the highway crowded when we are rushing somewhere, cluttering and littering the beach or park or wood, pushing in front of us at the supermarket, taking the last parking place, polluting our air and water, building a highway through our house, blocking our view...
...inflated prices you now have to pay in your supermarket can be directly traced to the huge budget deficits incurred before President Nixon took office in 1969. You are paying more for your food and clothing because fiscally myopic and politically irresponsible men were unwilling to live within the limits of federal income during a time of furious economic activity. The party and the men who fed that inflation have made careers of professing their heartfelt concern for the very poor and the elderly in our society. I know of nothing more cynical, more cruel, in American politics...
Others have also profited from the White House invasion. The Alpha Beta Supermarket, part of a chain, on El Camino Real takes in an extra $500 a week when the President is in town. Sometimes the White House orders put the manager, Leon Riley, on the phone to his food broker in Los Angeles, as the time when the chef ordered macadamia nut ice cream (it comes from Hawaii). "They've picked that up here and taken it back East with them," says Riley. And it took Alpha Beta a day and a half to get in Gruyere cheese...
...elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...