Word: velveeta
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...less foreign in America, we will produce a more generous art, less timid, less parochial. Hispanic Americans do not have a pure Latin American art to offer. Expect bastard themes. Expect winking ironies, comic conclusions. For Hispanics live on this side of the border, where Kraft manufactures Mexican-style Velveeta, and where Jack in the Box serves Fajita Pita. Expect marriage. We will change America even as we will be changed. We will disappear with you into a new miscegenation...
...ring but on the stage. Off the set, Parton says she has been learning a few things from her health-conscious costar. After a stern summer of dieting, she is lighter by 26 pounds. Says Parton: "Hanging around with him makes it easier for me to stay away from Velveeta and Wonder bread...
...mansion attached, a Potemkin affair. The essence of snobbery is not real self-assurance but its opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep up and reclaim the soul and drag it back down into its native squalor, back to the Velveeta and the doubleknits. So the breed dresses for dinner and crooks pinkies and drinks Perrier with lime and practices sneering at all the encroaching riffraff that are really its own terrors of inadequacy. Snobbery is a grasping after little dignities, little validations and reassurances. It is a way of swanking...
...experiences during Freshman Week, and with good reason. Some really enjoy the week--the more outgoing types and those from far away seem to fare best. Saturday was probably the best night to watch the goings-on; it's too soon for people to be turned off by the Velveeta-like sameness of the parties...
Seated behind a pile of groceries and waving a package of Velveeta as she talked, Mrs. Gladys Aponte, a Puerto Rican who heads a consumer group in Brooklyn's bleak Bedford-Stuyvesant district, told of the results of two days of comparison shopping a fortnight ago. On every one of 20 standard items, she said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend...