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...cinema, which offers patrons first-run movies at about half the cost charged by downtown Paris theaters; as an extra service, anyone can check in with a hostess upon entering the cinema and she will call him out when the aircraft arrives. Added attractions include an art gallery, a supermarket, a photo shop that makes instant poster-size enlargements, two hairdressing salons, three post offices, two music stores, a bank, an antique shop and a cheese market. There is also an all-purpose Mr. Fixit shop in which customers can have new heels put on their shoes, keys copied...
...bring $1,500 less. Space contractors organized an employment service and invited more than 100 organizations-life insurance companies, boat builders, even the CIA-to interview laid-off employees. They found 600 jobs for 2,000 men. One $15,000-a-year engineer wound up packing groceries in a supermarket for $1.65 an hour...
...suburban supermarket in Woodbury Heights, N.J., where Universal was filming They Might Be Giants, a kid came up and offered Actress Joanne Woodward a stick of bubble gum. Joanne popped the wad into her mouth and began blowing bubbles. The wardrobe mistress couldn't have been happier: she salvaged the gooey mess and used it to mend some broken cuff links worn in the next scene...
...farm in New Jersey's Delaware River Valley with his wife, two boys, a couple of aging Siamese cats, and a pet starling named Bronstein, which, Russell claims, imitates creaking doors, balky auto engines and knows how to say, "It's time to go to the supermarket." There Russell studies and writes about nature, trying to draw from its complexity an eternal truth: that no action in life functions without regard to other life...
...TAKE-OFF point for the student of Creative Psychology is liberation from the "illusion of the personal ego." The reason, in other words, that the Supermarket Racers all failed before they started is because they completely misunderstood the meaning of life. They saw themselves as individuated organisms-physically independent from their environment and physically independent of the spiritual miracle of Life-who were simply cancelled out by death. That perspective dooms our Racer to frustration and self-recrimination...