Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 200 people--including operafans, autograph hounds and even a Beverly Sills look-alike-turned out Saturday to greet the retired opera queen as she came to the Coop to hawk her autobiography and a new set of records...
...Coop offered the new Sills recordings--which had been unavailable for several years--at a discount price. But, as one Coop clerk told the crowd, "First you go upstairs and buy an album and then come downstairs to have Miss Sills autograph...
...from Needham, said she looks so much like Sills that people often confuse her for the singer. In fact, Cambridge Police Officer Jack Moynihan--who was assigned to guard the soprano from overzealous fans--said he told Frazier, "I thought you were already here" when she arrived at the Coop...
After Sills signed autographs for more than an hour, Coop General Manager James R. Argeros, presented the soprano with a plaque commemorating the day she spent at the store, saying that the memento represented the "sincere admiration for the joy, compassion, and sense of spirit you have shared with us today...
...EXAMPLE, when I walk into the Coop and ask "Where are the pens?" I never get an answer. The sales girl is always far more interested in my cultural handicap than she is in the fact that I want a pen, and asks "Where are you from...