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...such a term after the generations of hagiography and reinvention, was infinitely more interesting, one of the most complex and contradictory personalities of the century. His full name, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was memorably--and literally--translated into English by the novelist G.V. Desani as "Action-Slave Fascination-Moon Grocer," and he was as rich and devious a figure as that glorious name suggests...
...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
...Martin is also a hunted man, mostly by Dan Aykroyd's Grocer, a goofily rational rival determined either to bring him into a hired killers' union that he is intent on forming or, failing that, to off the competition. Curiously enough, Grocer and his henchmen blend quite easily into the suburban scene. Grosse Pointe may have grander homes and less snow than, say, Fargo, but spiritually they are sister cities--places where everyone tries to maintain an air of chipper blandness in the face of postmodernism's disorder...
...Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley, and the funeral home where he was laid out. But Bridgeport is also the sort of community where a Mexican grocer can find his tires slashed, where a Chinese housewife can discover that someone has set her garbage cans on fire, and where a black mailman who had the temerity to walk into a bar on a June afternoon in 1993 to ask for a drink of water was beaten...
With Delno and Ida working almost all the time, informal supervision of the kids fell to the Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place. Frank worked for a Jewish grocer from the time he was 8 until he was 14. A year after Raines left, Franklin High School was tight with racial tension, which eventually fueled riots in Seattle's Central Area. But the Class of 1967 was still a harmonious blend of Asians, blacks and whites, and Raines was its star...