Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought of eating salted nuts makes me think I'm eating brine." Most of the advice Taylor received would be useful anywhere. Avoid cheese, and if you cannot do that, at least do not buy processed slices, which have far more sodium than the block. In the supermarket, do not buy any product if salt is listed among the first three ingredients...
...water" sub-plot of this forked work has a complexity too. In fact, it gives Cheever an ideal playground for assembling one of his patented concatenations of weird events. A down and out barber shoots his dog in full sight of his neighbors, two women wrestle in a supermarket, a baby is mistakenly abandoned. Also, Cheever cannot was quite to eloquent nor so humorous about the country side as he can about sex. But he succeeds in constructing his labyrinth of characters and circumstances more significantly and puts forth a well-crafted threnody for a landscape he holds dear...
...look for oil and stayed in a condominium he and his business partner had bought there, and David drove to EI Paso every Monday to work in a Boy Scout camp. To get to the movies they drove at least three miles, and even though the Safeway supermarket was about a quarter mile from their home, they never walked. Liz thought nothing of flying to Shreveport, La., to visit friends from her temple youth group...
...Sears' ally in the pollution case is wiped out, gangland style; an infant is accidentally abandoned by the side of a highway; Sears stumbles into a brief and mystifying homosexual tryst. Amid all this activity, Cheever's attention regularly shifts to other matters. A scene in a supermarket veers into a meditation on the historical importance of commerce: "It is because our fortresses were meant to be impregnable that the fortresses of the ancient world have outlasted the marketplaces of the past, leaving the impression that fear and bellicosity were the keystones of our earliest communities, when...
...over. As a refugee from Bethel and his life's work, he found himself with few marketable skills, a $10,000 settlement from headquarters and $600 in personal savings. He turned to an old friend in the faith, Peter Gregerson of Gadsden, Ala., who runs a regional supermarket chain. Gregerson loaned Franz and his wife a house trailer to live in and gave him work as a handyman. By 1981 Gregerson too had begun to question Watch Tower dogma and resigned from the faith...