Word: supermarket
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...many as 400 people in tow, and he may decide-today, tomorrow or perhaps ten minutes from now-that it is time to put on his Indian headdress and call the rest of the Malibu tribe to a war dance. He has been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life...
...death he left two collections of his essays and reviews, Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. In 1969 The Third Book of Criticism was published posthumously. Most of his last remaining pieces are now gathered in Kipling, Auden & Co. The result, inevitably, is a jumble of scraps and remnants: a portion of Jarrell's master's thesis on A.E. Housman, articles on music, painting and sports cars, a touching tribute to War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, dozens of poetry and fiction reviews and a few pieces from Supermarket, now out of print. Slight...
...have to modify its country club image. Joe Six-Pack does not belong to a country club. Maryland's Republican Congressman Robert Bauman expresses a widespread aversion to the venerable upper crust that has long controlled party affairs: "They are elitists. They are out of touch with the supermarket counters. Their view of Communism is that it is a market to be sold to, not a system that may destroy their children's freedom...
...hunters is the subway stop on Leningradsky Prospekt. The place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered...
...represented an open mind, but you slipped into the closed mind of "vital use." The trap of our culture is believing that people can live if they are useful. What is important is not "being useful" but "being." We do not sell grandmothers' smiles in the local supermarket...