Word: supermarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recall, for instance, the demonstration that took place in a Riyadh supermarket during the buildup to the Gulf War in November 1990, when seventy women from prominent Saudi families dismissed their chauffeurs and drove by themselves in protest of the driving restrictions...
...late 1970s Esposito pleaded guilty to the attempted abduction of a seven-year-old boy from a shopping mall. In 1988 he applied to join the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization, which offers role models to children from single-parent homes. When suspicious officials turned him down, he used a supermarket bulletin board to offer himself as a freelance mentor...
...revolution in the French way of life. Postwar prosperity brought refrigerators, so bistros no longer had a monopoly on cold drinks. Television now entertains people who once dropped by the local cafe to pass the time. Moreover, alcohol consumption has dropped a third in the past decade, and cheaper supermarket prices encourage people to do their tippling at home. Another sign of the times: le cocooning, the preference of a stressed-out generation to stay home to relax. "People used to come and tell us their little problems," says Pierre Domingue, owner of the Cafe de l'Arrivee...
...year of anti-incumbent fever, female candidates had an appeal that went beyond gender loyalty. Where women voters read "role model," males read "outsider." There was a general expectation that women would be more ethical, less taken by perks and pomp and more likely to view things from the supermarket-counter level. This, in fact, had been the suffragists' dream: that women would use their innate "mother sense" to bring sweetness and light to the smoke-filled back rooms...
...himself with this one. The fine barrelhouse prose of The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-Two in the Shade is working again. He waves his arms, he hoots and hollers and thrashes out a rowdy parody of the male psyche under the stress of having to defend itself in the supermarket. Without taking sides, of course, between male and female, he makes it clear that what Frank needs is the loving care of a good woman. What will set female readers to muttering Wiccan incantations is the certainty that some patient woman, like as not his wife Gracie, will show...