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...vegetarians and health food nuts who like paying prices at specialty stores. Cambridge Health Foods (1642 Mass Ave), The Spa (O Brattle St.) and Europa Biocosmetic (1875 Mass Ave) are nearby...
Most important, the European Common Market has proposed that any company that wants to incorporate itself as a Societas Europa (a still-to-be-created type of company free to operate in all nine Common Market countries under a single set of incorporation rules) must establish a board on which one-third of the directors will represent labor, another third will speak for shareholders, and the remaining third will be chosen by the first two groups. Predictably, corporate leaders have been horrified. Even in Germany, some heads of major corporations predict that giving labor an equal voice in company planning...
Such a romanticism, which has not only survived civilization but managed to invade it, crops up in expected places, and unexpected patterns. In the glittering basement shops of Europa Center, for instance, or in the new anthropological museums of Dahlem--both create a fairytale world of objects magically charged with pleasure or the primitive, protected and displayed like relics...
...tunnels at Europa Center objects in glass cases surround one: rocks and jewels in a shop--crystal, metal, wood, leather, fur--objects which could possess all the properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give...
SOMETHING OF THE same pattern attends the sale of sex. Beate Uhse has one of her famous "supermarkets" beside the ruin of the Memorial church, its posters offering "sunshine." Another shop in Europa Center displays whips beside the usual manuals and salves. Porno flicks, run continuously everywhere, including the once great screen palace "Metropol," with towers, great arches, and status in its stucco front...