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...want to bake and cook and go to the supermarket and watch an incredible amount of television," she says. "I'll also get more done here than if I was at home the whole time," she added...
Take the first issue (a preliminary trial issue appeared in September). The articles range from "Supermarket Management" ("You don't have to be a superwoman to be a supermarket manager, but it may help."), to "Wages for Housewives" which, in a comment one would only expect to find in Readers' Digest or Life Magazine, exclaims incredulously, "Some folks are beginning to suggest that women who stay at home and clean and cook and shop...should be considered 'working people...
...Here are eight characters in search of a dialectic, survivors of the new politics, the new morality, living on the ragged fringes of the old order, wondering why things have not come right. One runs an experimental school, another (zestily and engagingly played by Miou-Miou) is a supermarket cashier who deliberately undercharges her customers. This is a good, fertile field for comedy, but Tanner plows it under with self-seriousness and congenital melancholy...
Tony Westmorland, 61, and his wife Doris, 60, had planned to sell the supermarket and liquor store that, along with some rental properties, netted him $40,000 a year on Chicago's South Side and retire to Hawaii. Last year, however, they vacationed in the South and were pleasantly surprised by the friendliness of the people, the lower cost of living and the availability of good housing. Says Westmorland, who was raised in Atlanta: "I fell in love with it all over again." Adds his wife, who had not visited the South since she left Texarkana, Texas...
Tasty Prices. Shoppers welcome the trend as an alternative to cellophane-wrapped tomatoes and other supermarket fare. Says Russell Wichterman, a Detroit importer: "At the market I can pick every tomato, every ear of corn and every potato myself and know it's all fresh." The prices are tasty too. Because there is no middleman, farmers can sell their produce at prices one-third to one-half less than in supermarkets. At the Greenmarket last week, a dozen ears of sweet corn sold for $1, as did 4 Ibs. of fat tomatoes. At a nearby supermarket, the same package...