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...food was good. But there aren't many of those in Lynn anymore; they've been driven out by the Seven-Elevens and the Hickory Farms--both big telethon friends--where you can find: dirty magazines in a rack by the window; a few objectionable apples; milk and bread; a bored high school kid behind the counter; and lots and lots of cigarettes and diet soda. And people have to pretend to love it, because there isn't any choice. "I'm out to change the corporate image," Lewis informs us early on. "They get a dirty deal... They...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
When the walkout ended, the government first announced that the price of a loaf of bread would quadruple to about 50?, then announced a delay on the move. Trybuna Ludu reported that a meat-rationing program would be "reviewed" and that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled...
...from coaching to advising Scriptwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) how to make Williams a convincing literary hero. Irving also appears briefly in the movie as the referee peering intently into knots of arms and legs. In addition, he is currently finishing two weeks of teaching and readings at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vt., appearing with such
...each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense...