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Worst of all, Mary Q.'s family knows how styrofoam those personalities are, but it clings to its dreams, writing its favorite stars letters and reading gossipy fan magazines. In the method of check-out counter journalism, a star having dinner with anyone translates into an affair, and jaded, empty personalities are promoted into "great stars." Everyone knows what the beautiful people really are, but who would have thought that beautiful people would make a serious, but inevitably shallow film about beautiful, shallow people...
...Filene's department store in Boston. Some more numbers out of Washington support that view: the Commerce Department announced last week that the aggregate personal income of Americans rose 1% in July, largely because wages had grown more than expected. And when paychecks swell, those lines at the check-out counter are quick to grow...
Edward S. Terrell, a part-time library employee who was working at the check-out desk when the alarm sounded, said that smoke-detectors probably activated the alarm after catching wind of cigarette smoke somewhere on the fourth floor...
...degree, while others heedlessly try to make it in the demanding fields of scholarship or the creative arts. "This group does take off," he says, "and often they have insufficient skills to stay off the Howard Johnson floor. They're the ones who are driving cabs or working at check-out counters...
...rising too. Since Mrs. Perón took office, right-and left-wing terrorism has claimed more than 900 lives. Last week's toll was four dead, among them the Defense Ministry's chief of intelligence, who was shot to death as he stood in a check-out line in a Buenos Aires grocery store...