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...Stockton offers him. Drinking, desperately trying to love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real contender or raised a family but for his damning insecurities, Tully finds no personal tranquillity. He moves from job to job: tops onions and sacks nuts, hoes tomato fields with Negro migrants whose silent endurance confounds and defeats him. At the end of his labors, he is no farther from torpor than when he started. The Stockton park even cuts down the shade trees under which laborers sleep in the evening heat. With irony too strong...
...like mon (modern) and airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...
...foreigners, who worry about alien economic dominance. What is far less visible and less controversial is the great foreign stake in the U.S. Few Americans realize that when they launder clothes with Lever Brothers' Lux, drink Lipton's Tea, open a can of Libby's tomato juice or groom their hair with Beecham's Brylcreem, they are buying from companies owned or controlled by foreigners...
...fine garden that Antonio Carrozzi kept. There were tall, aggressive beanstalks. Jungles of pregnant tomato vines. Ears of corn like golden footballs. And out front, placed there to conceal the tempting vegetables from passersby, 300 spindly marijuana plants...
...neat middle-aged executive peers out from the television screen. "Hello," he says, his face crinkling into a sheepish grin. "I'm from General Telephone." Boos and hisses explode off-camera. "Now, I'm aware that General Telephone provides less than adequate service." Plop. A rotten tomato slides down his chin. "But we're spending $200 million in California this year on improving our service." He is hit with an egg. "Cables, switches, personnel, everything." A cream pie splatters over his face. "Thank you for your patience," he mumbles through...