Word: picnicers
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...come from an eggplant that had suffered a fatal injection of food dye. No plaps from the audience now. There were exclamations of glee and applause as the models swanked and swanned. If Lacroix wasn't staging a feast, it was clear he was laying on a nifty picnic...
...these gamblers. Almost all of them have ascended from poverty to wealth, but none particularly feel that fortune has smiled on them. As Minnesota Fats says, "When you're poor you don't expect nothin' from life, and when you don't expect nothin', everything that happens is a picnic...
Such a megabuck scale is foreign to the most colorful of the can pickers, the loners who scrounge through garbage cans around picnic grounds, sports arenas and office buildings. They turn in empties for a refund, usually a nickel a can, in the nine states that have bottle and can deposit laws. In other areas they can sell their refuse for 28 cents to 40 cents...
...small pastoral pavilion a minister, flanked by a Confederate flag, conducts a memorial service for the sons and daughters of the Old South who are buried in the adjacent cemetery. The scent of warm corn bread and fried chicken wafts from a nearby picnic table. Strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic float with gentle familiarity through the heavy air. Only the fact that it is sung in Portuguese seems inappropriate. But, in fact, it is fitting because this get-together occurs some 5,000 miles below the Mason-Dixon line, just outside a southern Brazilian city called Americana...
After the memorial service, there is a picnic and church bazaar. While women swap dessert recipes and sewing hints, men exchange investment tips and talk soccer. Everybody gossips. Weightier topics are also touched on: AIDS, the Persian Gulf war, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's recent Brazilian tour. What distinguishes the occasion is its civility. Even the singing of hymns at the service seems contained. Perhaps the restraint stems partly from the absence of hard liquor and beer. "As practicing Protestants, many of us think alcohol is unholy and unhealthy," says John Homer Steagall, 68, a retired Singer sewing-machine general manager...