Word: jewel
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...Jewel was a big deal a few years back--in spite of herself. She was a pop singer with a nice voice, but she dispensed her hippie homilies with a spooky intensity, as if she thought her words were closer in meaning to Toni Morrison's than Toni Braxton's. Her popularity proved that people will put up with a lot as long as they can sing along with the chorus...
...checkout system, using wireless technology for mobile cashiers. Home Depot, based in Atlanta, recently invested heavily in self-checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe they could add to that a sincere 'thank you,' which would be nice. But they didn't when...
...DIED. RACHEL KEMPSON, 92, British theater, film and TV actress and matriarch of the Redgrave family of actors; in New York City. Kempson, who started her stage life in 1933, achieved wide acclaim for her TV role as Lady Manners in the 1980s hit drama The Jewel in the Crown. During her career she also acted alongside various family members and made her film debut opposite her husband, Michael Redgrave, in the 1941 comedy Jeannie...
...François Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film is a masterpiece, but both address the envy of old souls contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive...
...make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in a one-day tie-breaker play-off that remains one of the most beautiful, jewel-like ball games ever played. Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys of Summer--which Sports Illustrated named last year as the second greatest sports book...