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...with François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door. "Yes, that's the way these things often go," one says, thinking back over the film in those mulling moments so kindly provided by traffic jams and checkout-counter lines. Indeed, one rather imagines it was blank moments like those that kept Bernard (Gérard Depardieu) and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant, a particularly lovely newcomer) alive in each other's minds between the bitter breakup of their tumultuous romance and their next meeting, seven years later. This occurs when Mathilde and her new husband happen to move...
Standing in line at the supermarket is not usually a barrel of laughs. But at Albertson's Food Center in San Jose, Calif., the checkout counter is turning out to be the most entertaining part of the visit. Albertson's, along with five other U.S. supermarkets, has installed a tiny black box manufactured by National Semiconductor Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif. The device electronically simulates a woman's voice calling out the price of each item, the total bill and the amount of change owed shoppers. The machine, dubbed POSitalker, is usually connected to a so-called...
...good to last, and it did not. In July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto...
...Mondale aides expect to draw ever more frequently from material in the black binders. For instance, either candidate can hit back hard at Reagan's bid for the black vote by recalling his 1976 claim in a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., speech that working people at a supermarket checkout counter were "outraged" when they saw a "strapping young buck" buy T-bone steaks with food stamps. Carter-Mondale researchers have also found that in January Reagan said of U.S. attempts to prevent more countries from obtaining nuclear arms: "I just don't think...
...believes that consumers do not realize the full potential of these freebies. She is Susan Samtur, 34, a mother of two and former school teacher in Yonkers, N.Y., who has published her ideas on how to be a supershopper in a new book called Cashing In at the Checkout...