Word: munching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading rage go? In the superstores--Barnes & Noble, Borders, Crown--where busy workers are sometimes more familiar with the inventory of flavored coffees than the location of the new John Updike novel--reading can seem like a sideshow, not the main event. Flutes play. Writers recite. Young singles munch bagels. Toddlers look for Waldo. "The idea of the cafe and the couches," says Steve Riggio, Barnes & Noble's chief operating officer, "is to make the store a good place to spend leisure time." Riggio's concept appears to be working. Superstores are expanding and multiplying (to the tune...
...cleverly used special effects. Behind the central couch, a different framed print hangs for each of the six scenes, each time keyed to the particular mood of the scene. The well-chosen prints ranged from Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can to a Chagall print to Munch's The Scream. Another striking feature of the set was a medicine chest in which Kitty keeps her "blue wonder drug"--actually blue M&M's--as she nicknames the poison gas pills. Smoke billows out from the eerily lit medicine cabinet at the end of the fifth scene and creepily snakes...
While walking around, the discriminating shopper can munch samples of Club treats like gourmet lasagna or Haagen-Dazs ice cream. My sister and I usually consider this a meal, since by the time you've eaten your way through the food aisles and down one hundred yards to the electronics section, you're full...
...offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just for practice. The next victim is a teenage virgin (pretty, plucky Neve Campbell, one of the preternaturally bedimpled kids on TV's Party of Five...
...stupid, as Carlester Eric Robinson discovered after allegedly shoplifting at a Baltimore pharmacy. He ran onto the set of NBC's Homicide, where actors had just finished a scene and still had their fake guns drawn. "The guy looked around and dropped his bag," says RICHARD BELZER (Detective John Munch). "We all just looked at him. Then he realized it was TV and looked really embarrassed." Security guards handed him over to the real cops, who charged him with theft. His haul? Kodak film and Q-Tips...