Word: suppers
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...plastic purple container that might normally hold a shot of creamer, filled instead with the grape juice most American Protestants use to celebrate the Lord's Supper. The Communion wafer nestles between layers of a pull-tab lid. The item, assures Johnson, is "liturgically correct." The cups cost 10¢ each. "No waste, no hassle," says Johnson. And no germs. The cup's press kit notes that it may help prevent the spread of meningitis, although Johnson says, "We are careful not to sell fear. That's not what this cup is about...
...Axis, and Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley operating at full throttle, every G.I. could hit the beach with a song in his backpack. Terrific songs, many of them. They still sound swell today, and they even look good on the bandbox stage of Manhattan's Blue Angel Supper Club in a larkish but poignant revue called Swingtime Canteen, directed by Kenneth Elliott...
Does the lure of a fine patisserie or the whiff of a Tuscan supper translate into greater book sales? They seem to. More than 980 million adult books were sold in 1993 (the last year for which figures are available), 64 million more than the previous year, and superstores report that their sales are growing 15% a year on average. "The great advantage to the superstores is simply that they buy more titles," says Roger Straus, president of the venerable publishing house Farrar Straus & Giroux. "More books in the best-seller echelon are being sold, and it would be unfair...
...Bethlehem, dressed in a sack, with cloth bags for shoes and New Testament in hand, completely unaware that it was snowing, confident that he was Jesus Christ. And the angry German who phoned police to complain that his hotel's kitchen staff had prevented him from preparing the Last Supper. And the naked, sword-wielding man who ran through the Old City on what he explained to arresting officers was a mission to heal the blind...
...singing for their supper can sometimes mean catering to the local tastes...