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Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...
...that has been prowling hungrily around a Yard dorm common room for more than a week faced a brutal and sticky death earlier this week when it was caught in a trap baited with peanut butter, Weld North residents said yesterday...
...Nebraska. In the past year, however, Boyle's erratic behavior convinced most Omahans that he was unfit even for city hall. Among other embarrassing incidents, the mayor fired the police chief in a feud over traffic tickets issued to his family, and was seen tossing a pat of butter at a county official during a dinner meeting. Last October a citizens' committee charged Boyle with abuse of power, denounced him as "irresponsible, petty and at times downright childish" and called for his ouster...
...salt, sugar or other seasonings, and absolutely no coffee." A great revelation concerning the wonders of food came in 1929, when Fisher, while in France, dined at the Hostellerie de la Poste in Avallon. "The dish that forever changed my idea about food was mashed potatoes, dripping with butter," she recalls. "It wasn't only that it was perfectly made but most of all that it was served as a separate course. At home potatoes always came as an automatic adjunct to meat. Seeing them given individual respect taught me a great lesson...
...RETURNS with no news of Antoine. He has grown more cynical. All around him, he sees the self-serving, the spineless--those who supported the Occupation in hope of getting extra butter rations, who are now covering up their guilt as hastily as they cover up the traces of the lost deportees. Maspero examines how people compromise their principles during a crisis. He invites the reader to consider questions of personal ethics, when the safety of the individual is at stake...