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...every year, and each day 1,300 tour buses clog the streets. But since 1976 the local population has shrunk 20%, to about 35,000, and residents continue to flee to the suburbs. There are 18,103 slot machines, but no car washes, no movie theaters and only one supermarket. And on Mother's Day, people could not get to church because the Tour de Trump, a bicycle race, blocked the roads that morning...
...seemed an odd concern for a man at the center of the most serious State Department espionage scandal since the Alger Hiss affair. But perhaps Bloch's preoccupation with the media is understandable: he carried with him a color photo of a woman knocked to the ground in a supermarket by a burly TV cameraman who had been tracking Bloch's grocery cart. "That's the way it is nowadays," he said, sighing...
...Rogers, an ophthalmologist in Pompano Beach, Fla. "They are no longer interested in their doctor, who has perhaps been their doctor for five, six, ten years. They are really interested in what it's going to cost them. It's just like they're going shopping at the local supermarket...
...pieces as his Family Tree, 1986-88, serve as vivid symbols of the appropriationist free-for-all that is Japanese pop culture today -- a tsunami of Mickey Mouse trinkets, teriyaki burgers, Picasso calendars, Swatches and more. They are also dispassionate records of life in what Ohtake calls an "information supermarket," an environment in which traditional Japanese cultural values are up for grabs, along with everything else...
Holworthy is also close to Broadway Supermarket--where liquor, mixers, ice and munchies can all be bought under one roof. Not only was I the only roommate to show up with a bottle of vodka, I was also the only one to arrive with a fake I.D. Broadway and I became friends. Good friends...