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...that!" he protested, staggering to his feet and menacing poor Mia. Neither did Mitchum, who plastered a plate of salad on the Dutchman's face. In return, the gentleman heaved a salad at Mia. Before the waiters broke up the festivities, the air was full of cucumbers and tomato slices. Custard pie, anyone...
...gardening at their country cottage. Anyone who doubts her zeal for "interventionism" should talk to Britain's pub owners. After she pushed through legislation as Minister of Transport making a Breathalyser test mandatory for drunken-driving suspects, they sarcastically introduced a new drink called "the Bloody Barbara": pure tomato juice and tonic. No matter; her plan worked. Since it began, road deaths in Britain have dropped nearly...
...Tomato Fancier...
...perhaps the canning of the tomato represents an even more basic need. Perhaps man must simply be continually manipulating his environment, rearranging things, transferring them from one state to another. In this way man receives feedback. It is his way of talking to himself. As we push our carts down the colorful supermarket aisles the products are whispering to us, mumbling the messages we have instructed them...
...Krapp, we are constantly talking to ourselves, trying to convince ourselves we are still alive. We feel monumentally guilty about a crime we cannot even name. And we hold ourselves under a continual sentence of disappearance. Deep within we know that the sentence is a just one. Canning a tomato is our reassurance that the sentence hasn't yet been carried...