Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could break our heart in two. but like they say, money talks, bullshit walks. the point is break with Al Grossman (what did he ever give you anyway except your first million?) and let us market The Tapes. we have a deal we could set up at the psychedelic supermarket in hollywood would make Grossman wish he were three feet under please advise pronto. think twice. if you don't say yes, we're likely to hit it anyway. to live outside the law you must be honest. you said it, baby, not us. now you're paying...
...probably like Flesh. It's a supermarketful of genitalia, mostly male, which makes it a peculiar supermarket indeed. Who can resist Joe D'Alasandro, his phallus wrapped up in a St. Laurent scarf like an obscene Christmas present for Isadora Duncan? Who can pass up Candy Darling, a transvestite with rubykeeler red lips and a feather boa, reading '40's Hollywood pulp sags aloud to prove she couldn't care less about Joe's ongoing blow job? Who could miss a Warhol lampoon of Blow-Up, with Joe cast as Verushka...
...down a couple of floors and they proliferate among the groceries: row after row of Brillo cartons, absurd ziggurats of Mott's apple juice and Del Monte peaches towering up under the flat strip lighting. By now nobody who has seen a Warhol can enter a supermarket without the hallucinatory and even monstrous feeling that life is imitating art and that the principle of repetition and meaningless abundance on which Warhol's work is based has created its own landscape, as surely as Cezanne's brush "created" the expectations with which one might drive to Mont Sainte...
...welfare state, Miss Pullar complains, has leveled things out, but only at the price of turning England into a giant supermarket. She writes: "There is no excellence any more, or very little," looking far beyond her cookbooks to a civilization she judges tragically out of tune with nature. "Sterility, not fertility, is the great cry," she protests. " 'Life is one animal,' Samuel Butler said. And slowly we are killing...
...General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James Adachi, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: "We can set up a factory to make geta [Japanese wooden clogs], or open a supermarket, so long as it is smaller than 500 square meters...