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...long canal, still under U.S. control, has major strategic value; Panama is also one of the U.S.'s prime listening posts in the region and home to the 10,000-man U.S. Southern Command. To some, the U.S.'s difficulties in Panama are reminiscent of Iran. Having struck another Faustian bargain with a ruthless and corrupt dictator, the U.S. again finds itself turning against a longtime client with no viable democratic replacement in the wings...
After years of research, doctors feel they are ready to try to alleviate many incurable conditions, ranging from congenital heart defects to degenerative nerve diseases, through the transplanting of organs and tissues. Their pioneering triumphs, however, have created a Faustian dilemma. Each year in the U.S. hundreds of infants die who could have been saved by a new heart; literally millions of people with diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's may eventually benefit from tissue implants. Should physicians manipulate the definitions of life and death to meet this growing demand for donor tissue? The question is taking...
...second half of the 20th century has been full of uneasy trade-offs and Faustian bargains. One after another, life's most intimate and privileged matters -- sexual relations, conception, birth and death -- have been delivered to the unsanctified ground of science and commerce. The results may be welcome: the laboratory study of sex leads to treatments for sexual dysfunction; technologies of fertility give hope to the childless; mechanical organs offer the chance of longer life. But even as the gains are counted, the reservations mount. Even when the mind assents, the heart sometimes shivers...
Little Shop's Faustian dilemma emerges when the plant wants something in return: blood. Named "Audrey II" by Seymour in honor of his dreamboat, the wisecracking, ghetto-smart plant (whose booming voice is performed by Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) bellows "Feed me!" to the cringing Krelborn. How he deals with this unusual request is the problem of Little Shop...
Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...