Word: tomatos
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Shlain's collection of anecdotes covers all the bases. It's just like that tomato sauce commercial: Stories about Charlie Finley's A's? It's in there. A funny Tommy Lasorda tale? It's in there. Goose Gossage's thoughts before getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to Graig Nettles, sealing the Red Sox's fate in 1978 (and thrilling this seven-year-old Yankee fan)? You guessed...
...prove to be a lifesaver for agoraphobiacs and those simply daunted by the quest for the perfect ripe tomato. ScanFone, a high-tech home-shopping and bill-paying system, is designed primarily for ordinary grocery shoppers too busy to get to the store. Introduced last week in San Francisco by Virginia- based US Order, ScanFone allows Bay Area customers to pay bills and buy their groceries using a special Touch-Tone phone, a bar-code scanner and a 6,000-item catalog from Safeway. Unlike some predecessors, including a discontinued supermarket shopping system introduced by the home-computer information network...
...With Lettuce and Tomato) is born, with a 500 watt transmitter on top of a white tableclothed booth. Before 1926 is over, the station is a big hit. It's trash-Miss Stephanie and Her All-Boy Autoharp bands and Uncle Albert's poetry-but it's trash that the people love...
...Tomato basil soup...
...KETCHUP reform, however, would have some important and beneficial results. The Heinz Corporation would have to change its famous "thicker ketchup" commercial, creating new jobs for needy advertising executives. Horror movies would become gorier--a little of that new ketchup goes a long way. And Harvard Dining Services's tomato sauce--which, of course, is just cheap ketchup with oregano--would become more filling and nutritious...