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Humor is his usual vehicle, but he can also write with a haunting strain of melancholy, with delight or, as in his 1974 meditation on inflation-pinched old people shopping timidly at the supermarket, with shame and outrage: "Staring at 90-cent peanut butter. Taking down an orange, looking for its price, putting it back... Old people at the supermarket are being crushed and nobody is even screaming...
...products that are basic to the Soviet economy, and 23 were down from the same period in 1978. Such industrial necessities as steel, chemicals, fertilizer, cement, nonferrous metals and forest products were below last year's production levels; such dietary staples as milk, vegetable oil and butter were also produced in smaller quantities...
Next to the entrees, most anything would have tasted pretty good. Such was the case with the succulent side dish of baby carrots lightly cooked in butter and tender cauliflower...
...meal supposedly came with bread and butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...
...other problem was that 110 of the meals had to be kosher. Schleiders Caterers of Baltimore did not get the call until Saturday, but they were able to prepare kosher meals similar to the regular fare that would be served on the big night, using margarine instead of butter for the rolls and nondairy cream substitute in the chocolate mousse...