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...Gold dispensing amigo. Settle down together and listen to Melody. Say. "I'm gonna fix my face, don't you worry I'll be back." Blue, blue--I believe there's a philosophical inquiry into the nature and the consummated state of bluedness (Check it out at the Grolier bookshop). Anyway, watch spiky disaster-drawing peacock tendrils as the light bulb burns cool-blue bare and listen to "oh daddy, I'm a fool to cry" and ooh daddy you're a fool if the smoke gets in your eyes...
...Science Fiction Shop, 56 Eighth Ave., is a space capsule in the guise of a library; its posters, Little Nemo postcards and Arthur Clarke first editions provide July's most dazzling sci-fireworks. Readers with kinkier inclinations can find New York's only semirespectable X-rated bookshop at 251 W. 42nd St. G&A Books has the kind that used to be banned in Boston. Given today's moral alterations, its clientele is now a band that could be booked there...
...shopkeepers admit to a more direct motivation. "New York is the most important showcase in the world," says Gucci's Cagliarini. Aliquo of Ginori says: "We decided to come because of the prestige, just to say we had a branch on Fifth Avenue." "Angelo Rizzoli just wanted a bookshop on Fifth Avenue," says Robert Supree. "With his dough [an Italian publishing empire with $500 million annual sales], he couldn't care less if he makes money...
...face is tearful and puffy. But the rest of the characters, and all the scenery, is a catalogue of splendor. Truffaut's nineteenth century Halifax is magnificent inside and out, from the lichen-crusted castle battlements to the oak interiors of the houses and the cozy Victorian bookshop. The climax of the film--in Barbados--is more exotic, but here too the emphasis is on beauty, even when the camera moves in crowds of ragged African children and not in the bougainvillea-bedecked inner garden of the Governor-General's home...
Mandrake's Books is now the only bookshop in the Harvard Square area offering discounts to teaching academics on a limited basis...