Word: bookshop
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...lonesome widow runs a bookshop on a ranch in Arizona, one of the warmest bookshops on earth. Her name is Winifred Bundy, and her establishment is called the Singing Wind. You go north out of Benson on the Ocotillo Road, cross the train tracks and proceed 2 1/4 miles across a cattle guard to the shot-up mailbox -- SINGING WIND, it says, a careworn advertisement that is easy to miss -- where you hang a right on dirt, continue a quarter of a mile, open a gate, close it behind you and continue another quarter of a mile past horses, cows...
Bernice (Goldberg) is out on parole, managing a bookshop and trying to go straight. Blackmail propels her into a little job of larceny that turns out to be a setup for a murder rap and for yet another car chase around the hilly streets of San Francisco. The narrative is so busy, and Goldberg and Goldthwait (as her best friend) have so many boring obligations to its improbabilities, that the movie seems an unnecessary intrusion on its leading players...
...want to play lawyer, the Harvard Book Store Law Annex will give you a taste of the trade with its collection of used law books. Offering a good bargain on cheap used books, Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) presents a cleaner and better-lit store to search...
...half-hour before or after a movie at the Brattle St. Theater. On a nice day, you can try the outdoor stand along Church St. for good bargains on recently published books. Penguin Book afficionados can find every U.S. published and many British published Penguins at the Penguin Bookshop (1100 Mass...
Nestled at one end of the Lampoon castle, Starr Bookshop (29 Plympton St.) is the prototypical used bookstore. It has two floors of classical and scholarly books practically falling off the jam-packed shelves, and the man behind the counter knows everything. McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.) is another place to find well-used texts and has large medieval history, literary criticism and philosophy sections...