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...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 father afield, and a nice white fur coat with curly stuff all over it is reduced from...
...Come on in, honey," she said, as she took off my coat and beckoned me toward the couch...
...pratfall, and even longer giving his comedy the true roots of pathos. At the finale, Charlie has caused the owner to stop abusing his stepdaughter, but at a terrible price: the tramp has stepped aside so that the girl can marry a tightrope walker in a claw-hammer coat. Charlie watches the circus wagons wheel off, then once more turns and waddles away...
...Conroys emerge from basement with day's take: last week's haul included eight place settings of gold-plated flatware for $39.95 (original price: $110), a man's fake suede car coat for $6 (originally $25), four pairs of lined, imported gloves at $5 each (originally $16), and a framed painting of a Spanish warrior for $14.95 (once close to $50). "A good shopper needs only one to two hours to case the place," says Mrs. Conroy. "Longer than that and you begin to get headaches...
...more pernicious is the long term effect of chronic pollution from tankers flushing their storage compartments at sea. That, along with other everyday mishaps, adds up to 284 million gallons of spilled oil every year-about ten times the amount that oozed from the Torrey Canyon, and enough to coat a beach 20 ft. wide with a half-inch layer of oil for 8,633 miles. Scientists are increasingly worried that this oil could be poisonous to ocean plankton, a key source of photosynthesis that produces most of the earth's oxygen...