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...impossible, LaZebnik's emphasis on immediate satisfaction of the appetites--in this case, hunger--makes a certain kind of sense. Nevertheless, there's only so much humor to be squeezed from a pear that turns out to be someone's fiance, or from a shepherdess blowing on a banana. And what's only vaguely amusing the first time around hardly improves with repetition...
...television setting is "Scoops' Place," a rundown drugstore in the inner city. A young soda jerk named K.O.K. spoons out free banana splits to two buddies who stroll in. Boss "Scoops" calls the boy aside and points out that, although he makes only $1 per hour, K.O.K. has just spent $6 on ice cream for his friends. "Son," says Scoops in a fatherly fashion, "you're supposed to make $4 today. Now you've gotta work two more hours just to get back to zero." Blurts out the incredulous K.O.K.: "Oh, man, hey, I didn...
...only thing between Nelson Rockefeller and the presidency is a banana peel...
...Market trustbusters last month handed down their most severe decision ever against a single company. The target: United Brands, the big (1975 sales: about $2 billion) food multinational. The Competition Department of the European Economic Community fined the company $1.2 million for "an abuse of dominant position" in the banana market* and ordered an immediate 15% price rollback in five of the nine EEC countries. Key findings: United Brands priced unfairly by charging twice as much for Chiquita bananas in rich markets such as West Germany as in less prosperous ones, notably Ireland. Penalty for-noncompliance with the order...
Between her travels to the order's farflung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus and the Vatican's first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, but sees them...