Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terminals linked by moving sidewalks. Longest unassisted walk: 950 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs checkout: painless. Hotels/Motels: excellent. Eight within a mile of airport. Amenities: humdrum minimum. Functional lounges. Nine short-order buffets, three coffee shops, open 24 hr. One restaurant, being rebuilt. Ten bars, three open 24 hr. Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that rehearses and performs in the airport's underground chapel, a legendary bowler-hatted ghost who supposedly turns up in emergencies. Minihospital. European Terminal 2 is receiving $20 million facelift. Overall: friendly, frumpish...
...could bring in an elephant. Hotels/Motels: fair. Two hotels, the Sheraton and Steigenberger, at airport. Amenities: everything imaginable. Three snack bars, one coffee shop. Twelve restaurants, best of which is Rôtisserie 5 Continents. One bar, open noon to 10 p.m. Shops of all kinds, including a supermarket and "Dr. Müller's Sex Shop." Two barbershops, one beauty salon. Hospital equipped for surgery. Overall: superefficient and sterile...
...widely held to offer the best homemade ice cream in town, with a great variety of things to put on top. The only drawback is that you usually have to wait a good 45 minutes to get it. Sheila's, on Broadway just past the supermarket, is a lot less crowded but has the same sort of deal as Steve's--homemade ice cream with great toppings...
...special preview in San Francisco early this month, kids screamed in delight at the film's fantastic effects. At the end, while the lengthy credits rolled, the entire audience applauded for two or three minutes. "It was a supermarket audience, ordinary people," says Lucas, who was there and who still wonders at the reaction. "After something like that, you sit there and say, 'Gee, that's what it's all about...
...nearest village is six miles away; the closest supermarket is 28. My car is not a toy-it is a life support. But I would grimace and agree to the proposed gasoline tax if all revenue were used solely for the development of new sources of energy. But when the breeder-reactor program is scrapped, when a hydroelectric dam cannot be built in order to preserve the lousewort, the crisis seems just another means of taxing and depleting our greatest natural resource, the citizens...