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...with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling. A devotee jumps from alongside the altar with a burning brass tin of ghee-soaked cotton. He dodges his fellow devotees, offering each the burning ghee, or clarified butter. Everyone passes his hand over the sweet smelling ghee and touches his forehead...
...outright loans to refurbish and expand the big hotels. And Beach officials are trying to rectify the reputation of resort employees for surliness to tourists. The officials have held special sessions with cab drivers and hotel workers to coach them in etiquette, and passed out buttons to employees reading: BUTTER...
...down by Jewel. The difference is that unlike the major brands, which usually demand top-grade foodstuffs, the generic products are the cheaper, "standard" quality goods. Thus the green peas are more pebble-sized than petit, the rice is not always whole grain, grapefruit sections are broken and peanut butter contains specks of peanut skins...
...prices! An 18-oz. jar of no-name peanut butter at Jewel costs 34? less than Skippy; a 14-oz. bottle of no-name ketchup costs 22? less than Heinz, and 25 Ibs. of dog food sells for $2.80 less than Gaines Meal. Says Jewel President Walter Elisha: "Consumer response has been overwhelmingly favorable." That is not hyperbole. One morning, Star stacked 500 cases of no-name tuna in twelve of its suburban stores. The 6½-oz. cans sold for 59? each, v. 89? for Star-Kist. Though the food chain expected the supply to last a week...
...which Thalberg succumbed to Marxist absurdist consciousness even while trying to restrain it: how many other producers who walked into the office to find four naked men roasting potatoes over a makeshift bonfire would have had the presence of mind to send to the MGM commissary for butter...