Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choreographs, Mr. B. must deal with Capezio salesmen, the costume shop, injured performers, the installation of a gigantic set, his own deepening weariness. But the old ebullience flares. He is outraged by the attempt on the Pope's life, scornful of the play Amadeus, deciding that the playwright, Peter Shaffer "will be sorry in heaven" for his work. Heaven, in fact, must have been an easy transition for Mr. B. Confounded by his problems, he consoled himself by announcing that on opening night, "Tchaikovsky will probably be there with his entourage: Borodin, Moussorgsky, Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky- Korsakov." From the evidence...
...aisle customer who steals one or two items. Says Sensormatic President Ronald Assaf: "They're the ones who cause the real problems." Teen-agers and members of minority groups do their share of filching too, but not as much as had been thought. Says Assaf: "Not many teens shop in places where they could lift a $125 scarf...
Reporter-Researcher Cristina Garcia, who looked into trends in the Chicago area, does not own a VCR. "But," she says, "I already find myself browsing for films in video stores the same way I shop for books." San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson rented a machine to see what all the furor was about, and promptly ODed on movie tapes. "Strange things happen to rational people when they are faced with rack after rack of ad venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield...
...Conan the Barbarian and Donald Duck. "It's fun," says Powel Pupil Richard Williams, 9, adding that at home he hails his father with "Salve!"At New York City's private Trinity School, eighth-graders take turns reading aloud about a freed slave who owns a glassmaking shop. Teacher Cornelia Iredell spices the session by mixing in bits of grammatical instruction with the information that Roman merchants had to pay protection money to hoods in order to keep stores from being trashed...
Disasters do take place, of course, but they are more likely to strike developing nations than industrialized ones. The reasons are both complex and delicate. Some critics charge that corporate greed is at fault, that big businesses will set up shop in a poor nation simply to take advantage of cheap labor and lax laws. Says David Bull, chief of the Environment Liaison Center in Nairobi, Kenya: "There is a growing tendency for the larger multinational chemical concerns to locate their more hazardous factories in developing countries to escape the stringent safety regulations which they must follow at home...