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...professors have requested as the most suitable to nurture and develop your fledgling mind. Even if it is possible to get through Harvard without opening a non-Coop book, you are still beating the national average. "Only three percent of the population bought a book last year," claims Michael Patrick, manager of McIntyre and Moore, a used bookstore at 8 Mt. Auburn Street. "Less than half of those bought used books...
...McIntyre and Moore will gladly act as enablers. The store occupies a subterranean room on Mr. Auburn street, two blocks past Quincy House. It was founded in 1983 by two former bookstore employees to sell books that "you want to read, not that you're forced to read," says Patrick...
Although McIntyre and Moore refuses to stock many textbooks, the majority of the books are still fairly serious. If you desperately want a junk-book fix, look elsewhere for the latest Harlequin romance. On the other hand, when Patrick comes across a Danielle Steele or two in a batch of other books, those novels go out on the clearance table for a quarter each...
...hero of one of his own movies. There is a scene in The Border where Jack Nicholson is asked why he is trying to accomplish a feat most people think is crazy. His reply: "I guess I gotta feel good about something I do." --Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York, Patrick E. Cole and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo
...cheaper, lines have seen shaky times recently. Many American department stores have been quietly cutting back on the space allocated to their designer boutiques. In a significant move last December, the house of Anne Klein released Richard Tyler, a sharp tailor known for his Hollywood connections, in favor of Patrick Robinson, only 28, who had masterminded Armani's Collezioni line. Robinson's first effort, put together hastily after his appointment, was both safe and dull, but his attitude has to have retailers cheering. "The point," he says, "is to create excitement in the stores, not the runways...