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...refund forms. While couponing and refunding are hardly new-one of the first cents-off offers was devised in the 1890s by C.W. Post to perk up sales of Postum-they have accelerated in recent years at what might be called a rapid clip. With inflation grabbing from household budgets, those cents-off coupons and money-back refund offers have become more than an appealing way of stretching the food dollar: to many they are a way of life...
...saves $2,000 a year with coupons and refunds. When groups of friends gather for "swap meetings," she says, "you can be sure you all have something in common-inflation." Mary Janoyan, 33, a Troy, Mich., housewife, boasts of saving an average of $200 a month on her household budget. Says she: "If couponing and refunding were stopped tomorrow, I'd have to go some place for my withdrawal symptoms...
...painter living in France, flies to Los Angeles after learning of his mother's heart attack. He finds her in a serious but stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings him home from the hospital and tries...
...flawed genius who has long sought-and rarely received-approval from his bosses, Martin has found a warm sun of support to chase the shades from the darker corners of his spirit. He also likes the $1 million promotional campaign that has made Billyball and the man behind it household words all over Northern California. Now with a record-setting beginning, Billy Baseball beams: "The rest of them will be chasing us all season long...
...ancient Black customs. He is Natural Man, flexible enough to do and be everything for her, but rigid enough to make her as "natural" as he is. The "savannahs in his eyes" lure her, and yet his presence upsets all her next artifices and all those of the household. Morrison identifies Son's revelatory force with his unwashed body's smell which is powerful enough to wake a sleeping Jadine and to arouse her sexually, but horrible enough to mix with her fantasies a sense of shame comparable to that of a bitch in heat, taken by a pack...