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...long can we be passive and turn the other cheek when we get hit," asks Bobbi Baker, half-owner of "Bobbi Baker's," a little boutique on Holyoke Street that has been trashed three times in the last four months. "How long can we afford to stay in business...
Store owners also puzzled over what might happen in the next few days. Most of them denied hearing any threats yesterday. But Miss Bobbi Baker, owner of the heavily-looted clothing store, said, "We had a lot of people coming here today who I feel in my bones were here last night...
Demonstrators later broke windows in Bobbi Baker, Ltd. The store was looted, and about half an hour later a fire, was set in the front window...
Turning up Holyoke Street: the Andover Shop (men's clothing) is starting its sale next week. They have a very pretty salesgirl and a lot of wide-wale corduroy pants. Next door at Bobbi Baker (outfitters of Channel 4 movie reviewer Pat Collins), we asked the manager to have one of the salesgirls put on some of their sales items for a picture. "My God," she shrieked, "I've got so much on sale-she'd fall right through the floor. I'm a regular Filene's Basement," to name another good place for bargains, if you feel like traveling...
...Director Bobbi Edelson has constructed a symbolic drama whose characters are representations with whom one identifies on an intellectual rather than emotional level. She has emphasized the ritualized aspects of becoming a woman, where each step toward role "choice" is predetermined. In this light, the girls' bewildered resistance hasn't a chance against the system...