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...women appears from the kitchen dressed in a robe and carrying a box of cereal. "Well," she asks in a tone polite but indifferent, "would you like some breakfast? Let's see, about all we have is..."--she peers at the cover of the cereal box--"Fruit Loops." She lets out a yawn. "Sit down and eat some Fruit Loops." And we watch as Bill, so banged up he is barely able to move, his eyes heavy with beer and exhaustion, sits down with a spoon in his hand and begins to eat his Fruit Loops...
...Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
Strawberry Fields Forever, a fan club devoted to "the care and preservation of The Beatles," has spent most of July pushing its first Annual Beatle Convention. And now, all the hype bears its fruit. Devotees of Paul, John, George and Ringo have made the pilgrimage to Boston's Bradford Hotel. From California, from New York, from France, they have come for five hours of live Beatle music, ten hours of Beatle films, and an orgy of buying, trading and auctioning...
...childhood dream in Riga was to be a pianist. But his mother enrolled him at twelve in the Latvian Opera Ballet school. "I didn't take it very seriously," he recalls. "Then I really bit into the forbidden fruit and I couldn't tear myself away." From Riga he went to Leningrad, where, like Nureyev, he studied with Ballet Master Alexander Pushkin. At 18, Baryshnikov joined the Kirov as a soloist...
...protest, farmers throughout the country have been creating havoc. On the major highway to Spain, a thousand fruit growers dumped tons of pears onto the roadway, creating a twelve-mile traffic jam. In Le Havre, Norman peasants stopped dockers from unloading beef from an Argentine ship and, in a variation of the old Boston Tea Party, threw tons of the meat into the Channel. In other areas farmers hung dead chickens in front of local officials' homes, let pigs and cattle loose in village streets, and even halted the sacrosanct Tour de France bicycle race by covering the road...