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...self-respecting beach bum would be seen without at least some of the latest paraphernalia. A six-foot board, which costs between $250 and $350, is only the start. Next come the wildly colored drawstring trunks, the boldly patterned shirts, beach cruisers (bicycles with balloon tires and wide seats ( priced at $125 or so) and Zinka, multicolored zinc oxide applied like war paint. Those of drinking age reach for Corona beer, a favorite Mexican brew at Hussong's Cantina, a surfing hangout in Baja California. Noting the influence of the bar on surf culture, Moctezuma Imports, which markets Corona...
...farmers involved in the process could produce without fear of bum crops or low prices forcing foreclosure upon their family and moderate fortune. Waste would be eliminated from the beginning to the end--farmers would not purposefully destroy good crops or hide them in warehouses like nuclear arsenals; employees in the brown and gold polyester would not have to waste the movement of hand to bun with slime in hand; and lastly, new condominiums would not be resting upon a mountain of pickles that have made their run through the sanitation system...
...digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers the clean life when man will provide...
...company's advertisement to fill five jobs. In Texas, where the unemployment rate has reached 8.4%, Paul Rogers six weeks ago lost his job as an oil pipe fitter. Says he: "I'm 21 years old and have 44 years of this left. What will I be, a bum...
...verbally abused," just as I am sorry that someone was not there to help her or to take care of the situation. No one should have to go through what she did. Still, this does not excuse Ms. Martin from her prejudicial beliefs nor her use of the pejorative "bum" to describe one of the homeless men. Similarly, an asault by a Black man would not excuse the use of the term "nigger" nor would an assault by any other member of a minority group excuse the use of a prejudicial term. Throughout the letter, Ms. Martin demonstrates a prejudice...