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...Lyne had intended to produce a damning critique of contemporary culture, then he has fashioned an existential horror story of Sartrean proportions. The film reflects how Lyne and much of contemporary society have come to view human relationships--they are merely another item at the checkout counter...
...first coupon dispensers, produced by Coupon Systems of Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., displays a list of up to 40 brand-name products. Customers hit buttons corresponding to their choices, and the coupons are printed out. They can then be redeemed at the checkout counter as usual. For each of its products listed, the manufacturer must pay a weekly charge of $10 per store to Coupon Systems, which installs the machines. The company gives a percentage of its revenues to the supermarket...
Celebrity status, as the checkout-counter newspapers constantly remind us, is no guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
Yale also features a snazzy new computerized checkout system, which uses computer codes similar to those on supermarket packages. Before starting up the system in 1982, the university installed the codes on all 175,000 books in its version of Lamont Library, the undergraduate intensive-use library...
Like any test pilots, the astronauts gave their flying chair a thorough checkout; McCandless reported that his only real surprise was that the MMU shook and rattled when he turned on the forward-motion jets. The space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...