Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rudolf Nureyev proclaimed, Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week was "a ballet supermarket," and balletomanes dashed eagerly from aisle to aisle to sample the best offerings. At the New York State Theater, the American Ballet Theater opened a month-long stand featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers...
...funnel smashed a shopping center, ripped up a trailer park and slammed into a roller-skating rink filled with youngsters. It left at least 30 dead, several of them teen-agers with roller skates still strapped to their feet. At Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said, 'Watch her get blown away,' " recalled Gordon Shook, 18. "Then everybody got blown away." All told, 20 persons were...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...
Current smokes include almost anything from the supermarket spice and herb shelves plus dried hydrangea leaves, chlorine-soaked lettuce, and green peppers (aged until rotten, then used as a bulbous cigarette filter). But far and away the biggest new fad is tripping on banana peels...
...November-December low. Higher-income families especially were satisfied that they would either make more money this year than last or at least make as much as last year. Moreover, retail prices are generally holding firm and even falling in scattered instances; in Miami last week, the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain threw out trading stamps and sliced its prices. Ketchup, for example, went from 27? to 19? a bottle...