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...your house, repossessing your car, walking out with all your living room furniture. It's all legal--after all these things are no longer yours--but it's a nasty business, and the people who do it for a living are nastier still--picture if you can the Frito Bandito with seven years of EST under his belt...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: No Credit | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year." A group organized around devotion to carrot-bulgur-lecithin surprise cake unglued when Frito crumbs were discovered in their beds. At an ashram, Howard is overdosed on the word "share" and honored by a guru who breathes up her nose. At a farm community she is told of a vegetarianism so strict that members wear no leather or down-filled clothing. Neither will they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Attachments | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...settle a crinkly bag of lawsuits over illegal price fixing, Laura Scudder's Frito-Lay, Granny Goose Foods and five other manufacturers of potato chips and tortilla chips agreed to refund $3.8 million to retailers and $2.2 million to consumers in Arizona, California and Nevada. Company records listed the retailers involved, so that was no problem. But how to handle the refunds to consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Shouldering Chips | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Carea, one of the few intelligent defenders of the society Caligula sets out to destroy, fails to exude the shrewd acrimony of the practical man who knows what he wants and knows how to get it. This villain sports a long, thin moustache and a Latin accent, suggesting the Frito Bandito loose in the Roman Empire. Sonia Martinez evokes the right amount of cruelty, sensuality, and vacuousness that you would expect from a woman who devotes her life to a man who kills for reasons she finds incomprehensible, although she misses the more serious sides of Caesonia's personality...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Tripping Through Tragedy | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...frivolous enough to spend a buck on anything that bears the Lampoon's moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Put-ons Bored of the Rings | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

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