Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have long had a word for people who say no like broken records, fog their speech with boring yes-but-no dissertations and pointlessly hassle shop clerks and service-station attendants...
...ideal" conditions of the 1960s, freeing Czech directors from commercial constraint and political pressures as well, account in part for the emergence in Czechoslovakia of a dozen first class film directors of international recognition (winning two Oscars for The Shop on Mainstreet, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, and in 1968 for Mencl's Closely Watched Trains). When the Russian tanks rolled in and put an end to the Dubcek experiment of "socialism with a human face," Czech film directors, as well as many other people, were faced with the following choice: emigration abroad or "internal emigration." For most...
Arture Ui. Now that Boston's "legitimate theater" owners have told the city they will be closing up shop, this could be their swansong. Like Richard Chamberlain going "legitimate" from "Dr. Kildare" to the Prince of Denmark. Al Pacino, erstwhile brooding introspective mafioso, is trying to be even more serious as Arturo Ui Bracht's version of the Hitler-as-gangster phenomenon. Opens Wednesday May 7 at the Charles Playhouse downtown on Warrenton Street...
...direct underground link to the existing subway system. Once at Lafayette Place, shoppers will be able to move from store to store at three levels: in a subterranean concourse, on ground level and, by way of flying bridges, on the second floor. Instead of simply recreating the usual suburban shopping center-a fortress for retailing with all attention focused inward-there will be continuity with the surrounding area. Some of the new stores will front on established city streets, others on Lafayette Place's own maze of pedestrian malls and glassed-in galerias, which were designed by the architects...
...industry's watchdog, what remains of Wall Street's barnacled century-old system of charging uniform, fixed commissions for buying and selling stock will end. On May 1, negotiated commissions between brokers and the investing public will begin on all trades. Investors will be able to shop among competing brokers for the lowest commissions and the best services. Wall Streeters, who have done battle with the Government for a decade over negotiated rates, had given the event a designation that in itself is a distress signal: "Mayday...