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...than it can handle. But there is a catch in this Faustian bargain: Seymour must oblige the plant's noisy demands to "Feed me!" by offering it the bodies of a derelict, a prostitute and a sadistic dentist. Will Seymour and Audrey consummate their love? Will Audrey Jr. devour them both? Will this outre material make for a good musical comedy...
Books everywhere are falling apart. Acids in the ink and the pulp devour the pages. The paper crumbles, powdered words in a few generations will blow away like dandelion fluff. Some computer-literate great-grandchild will hold the empty, mortal binding in his hands as if it were Yorick's skull...
Like a freezing man who tries to heat his house by feeding the walls and roof to the fireplace, Government borrowing now threatens to devour virtually every penny that Americans had been expected to save and invest under Reaganomics. Bank Economist Irwin Kellner of New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust calculates that federal loans could consume no less than 92.1% of net national saving this year. Worse, Kellner predicts that in 1983 Government borrowing might take fully 113% of the year's net saving, siphoning money out of virtually every sector of the economy to help keep...
...practically unreal. A regular Pac-a-dream. Pac-Man, the obsessional game of pursuit and devour, is not just roaming the amusement arcade; increasingly, it is a house guest in the living room. May its fortunes increase; Warner Communications' certainly have...
This year's probable drops in inflation and a stabilization of energy costs may be offset by the College's November decision to boost faculty salaries, officials said recently. House and building renovations may devour the remainder of the savings from moderated energy and inflation-related costs...