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AUSTIN — Safeway stores in
Austin are test marketing a new
computerized shopping service,
housed in a refrigerator-sized ma
chine and featuring an electronic ally
operated catalog of 3,000 brand-
name items.
Touch the television-like screen,
and a young woman named Debbie
appears, smiles warmly, and intro
duces herself and the 1 out h-n-Sav<
shopping network that she describes
as “the first automated discount
warehouse right here at your fingei
tips.”
The screen then shows a “ware-
|house directory" listing 24 depart
ments from home appliances, cook
ware and telephones to tamping
equipment, luggage and watches.
Safeway officials hope Touch-n-Save will be another
merchandising vehicle that will bring more customers
to its stores.
There also are weekly specials and
clearance sales.
Touch the screen again directly
over the particular department, and
all the items for sale in that depart
ment appear .
There are easy instructions every
step of the way. Finally, the cus-
toinei inserts a Visa or MasterCard
to complete the transaction.
Postage paid envelopes are avail
able on a shelf just below the screen
if a customer wants to pay by check
or money order.
Safeway officials hope Touch-n-
Save will be another merchandising
vehicle that will bring more custom
ers to its stores.
Dennis Green, district manager
for Safeway stores in south Austin
and San Marcos, said the electronic
shopping network offers a way to
build on the one-stop shopping con
cept that large grocery chains have
been fostering in recent years.
“More people work, more women
and mothers work, and they don’t
have as much time as they need to
shop,” Green said.
Safeway bought the Touch-n-Save
equipment from CompuSave Corp.,
a California company that manufac
tures the machines.
All the products such as General
Electric appliances, Seiko watches,
Panasonic televisions, and Samsonite
luggage are being sold through the
CompuSave warehouse and distri
bution system, and Safeway gets a
share of the profits.
An electronic message running
across the front of the machine says
savings can range from 25 to 50 per
cent off retail prices.
“Electronic shopping means low
overhead, and that means big sav
ings,” Debbie says on videotape. “We
rush purchases right to your door by
UPS.”
For now, Safeway is trying out the
shopping machines in its Austin and
Little Rock, Ark., stores.
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GREENVILLE — Ordinary fab
rics, laundry starch and aluminum
wire may seem unusual mediums for
an artist, but Waynette Davis uses
household items to fashion her fiber
sculptures.
Davis once used the more tradi
tional medium of paint on canvas,
but eventually she found the two-di
mensional boundaries too restric
tive.
“1 became so involved in the tech
nical part of creating — the mechan
ics — that I couldn’t express mv
jideas naturally or let them change as
|l worked," she said. “I began experi
menting with other materials, using
small boxes and creating an environ
ment inside, almost like miniatures.”
Two years ago she turned to fiber
^sculptures, fragile shells of starch-
wstillened fabric supported inside bv
"skeletons of aluminum wire
mounted in concrete liases
Both in line and texture her work
often reveals her affinity for plants
land trees, and she uses a unique
photographic process to transfer the
image of bark to certain areas of f ab
le.
"I photograph tree bark and then
ake an 8-oy-10 positive print,” she
said. “Then I coat the fabric with wa-
tercolor and gum bichromate, put
the material and the positive be
tween two plates of glass, leave this
in the sun for about 10 minutes, and
the fabric picks up the pattern.
“Fve always sewn, so I’ve been
drawn to fabrics,” said the Houston
native. “Even the starching process
“/ never wanted to be a
sc ulptor in the beginning.
I thought sculpture had to
be heavy handed. Work
ing with hammers, nails
and welding seemed so
masculine, but these
pieces are lighter, more
feminine. —sculptor Way
nette Davis
seems natural. It’s like washing
clothes w hen I dip the fabrics."
Six of her works were displayed
this summer at Conduit gallery in
Dallas. Four were as tall as Mrs. Da
vis. Like the rest of her creations,
they deal with the theme of life and
death, birth and growth, struggle
and resurrection.
An earlier piece, “Ascension” is
eight feet tall and resembles a dead
tree at the base, with the coloration
and texture of ancient bark. As the
viewer’s eye moves upward, how
ever, he becomes aware that the ob
ject is gradually changing into some
thing living, topped with almost
feather-like leaves.
All of her sculptures are titled, a
point she considers important. “Ti
tles give the viewer a nandle,” she
said. "I don’t like to see a piece la
beled ‘Untitled.’ It’s like being intro
duced to someone without giving a
name.”
With a title as a starting point, art
can reach out to viewers through
their senses, said Davis. “I try to cre
ate a sensitivity in texture that peo
ple will respond to it bodily, without
thinking . . . like children do. Chil
dren don’t analyze. Theyjust feel.
"1 hope people can feel what I do
when I see trees — the whole regen
erative process," she said. “Because I
believe in something higher than
ourselves, I believe art must express
this concept. To me art is not just
decorative, not just self-expression
for the sake of self-expression. It’s a
means to an end — it has to have a
message.”
But she says, she doesn’t want to
’ je another artist’s work.
don’t want to have a censored
judge
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view,” she said. "If an artist is ex
pressing himself through a piece of
work, then at least that’s honest.”
She says the inspiration for much
of her work comes during her morn-
ing jogging sessions.
“You get to the point where
you’re physically too tired from run
ning to worry about little things, and
then ideas just come,” she said. “Of
course I’m running through a beau
tiful wooded area, too, which helps.”
Davis, who holds both bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in fine arts, is
not the only artist in her family. Her
husband, Lee Baxter Davis, teaches
drawing and printmaking at East
Texas State University. He works
primarily in pen and ink and water-
colors, and he exhibits frequently.
“We have a similar philosot
about what art should be, but
images, tools and techniques differ,”
she said. “We feed each other a lot of
ideas. I don’t think I’d be an artist if
I didn’t have a husband who is so
supportive.”
Since both parents are working
aritists, one might expect the Davis
children, Nathan and Anya, to fol
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other way,” said their mother, laugh
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it.”
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TO: The Women of Hobby Hall
FROM: The Men of Puryear Hall
A Sincere Apology
We deeply
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regret the actions
representatives of
area office on the
night of September 3,1985.
Be it known that they are not
Puryear Playboys but simply
hired help and please excuse
their callous actions.
To All The Women of A & M:
The real Puryear Playboys
would like to say “Welcome
Back to the University, pfl
Come See Us Soon!” KJ
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