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Until last week, Christine Hong, an assistant account executive at the Los Angeles ad agency Poppe Tyson, had never won anything. Then she received E-mail "signed" by Taco Bell president William C. Bell, informing her that from now until the end of October she could order one free lunch a week simply by stopping in at a participating restaurant and uttering this password: "I'd like a Grande Burrito and hold the McSour Cream...
...same mixed bag. On the wide screens there's a face-off between the two top-grossing films of the week. Casper (the Friendly Ghost) offers his doe-eyed version of mortality against the merry bloodbath that is Die Hard with a Vengeance. But over at Taco Bell, 15-year-old Christopher Zahedi will tell you he prefers the rougher stuff. "I liked the part in Pulp Fiction where the guy points a gun and says a prayer from the Bible and then kills everybody,'' he offers. "You hear the gun go brrrr. It's cool...
...each one more politically correct than the last. In one, a woman has been sexually harrassed; in another, a black man has been fired form his job and cheated out of a large sum of money; in the third an hispanic man has been discriminated against and called a "taco eater...
...dealing. Hunger is the least daunting problem. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, any youth who doesn't mind a lot of walking can find at least two free meals a day at various youth centers. And even the unluckiest panhandlers can make enough for a meal; at Taco Bell on Hollywood Boulevard, for example, a burrito costs only 59 cents. Then there is "table scoring" at fast-food restaurants: snatching unattended food from the tables before it is thrown away. Those with stronger stomachs engage in "Dumpster diving" for meals...
Bobby S. Fred also uses an alias to run an independent record label -- which he refuses to name -- and to edit a post-punk zine called Bobby Is Fred. He makes his living stuffing burritos at a Del Taco in Los Angeles. Unlike wannabes who prowl Sunset Plaza looking to get noticed, Bobby craves obscurity. He enjoys saying his favorite activity is eating at such trendy restaurants as Spago -- by serving himself from the Dumpster out back. "Look, this is a nation of disenfranchised kids," says Bobby. "The reason we don't talk to the mainstream media is because...