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Carver's art masquerades as accident, scraps of information that might have been overheard at the supermarket check-out counter or the local beer joint. His most memorable people live on the edge: of poverty, alcoholic self-destruction, loneliness. Something in their lives denies them a sense of community. They feel this lack intensely, yet are too wary of intimacy to touch other people, even with language. "What's to say?" wonders one man. Another, traveling to meet the son he has not seen in many years, dreads the moment of greeting: "He really didn't know...
...rhythms of the songs and the pace of the action are too different, which may be why the single most successful moment of the production is the overture, staged in front of a scrim decorated with the Northwest Orient Airlines logo. Blond air hostesses go through the usual check-out procedures, finding some berserk synchronization between their clockwork movements and Sullivan's ravishing score...
Sept. 29 by an automatic store camera. In it, a woman tentatively identified as Flight Attendant Paula Prince, who died later that evening after taking contaminated Tylenol, stands at the check-out counter while a burly, bearded man looks on. Suggestions that the man might be James Lewis raised the chilling possibility that the Tylenol killer put the poisoned capsules on the shelf, then watched an innocent shopper buy them. But despite efforts by FBI specialists and NASA space scientists employing sophisticated computer-enhancement techniques to clarify the image, the man could not be identified as Lewis...
...method employs a very low-powered laser, somewhat like the one used to read price codes at supermarket check-out counters, and directs it at sags, bags and furrows. The full course often to 16 treatments can cost as much as $1,000, and considerably more when the recommended monthly "booster" sessions are included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle...
...Stew Leonard's Farms, a large retail food outlet in Norwalk, Conn., computerized check-out scanners keep watch over the shelf and warehouse stocks of more than 650 different consumer items. Says J. Michael Peters, the firm's financial controller: "These scanners have helped tremendously to keep inventories in line with sales. Before we got them, it would take days, sometimes even weeks, to check out our inventory-to-sales position. Now the scanners provide the data instantaneously...