Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just been to the library and that all of her books were in. She replies that he looked like a dead fish after his last road race and that he had better slow down. "You don't understand," she says. "I'm too old to shop around. You're it." The strong affection between the two is evident...
...played by Lucy Gutteridge, informs Nick that her name, Hillary, means "she whose bosoms defy gravity") over a dizzying succession of generic spoofs. Beyond the basic sendup, which is of World War II-vintage spy movies, they work in parodies of Bond-style adventures and beach-blanket and malt-shop rock-'n'-roll musicals. Omar Sharif is the veteran star recruited to mock his image and collect the good-sport award from audiences. The dictum that less is more means nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though, the creative group has neglected to build...
...mustiness a must? Then the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) in the Lampoon Castle is your haven. A crowded room upstairs full of classics, and a downstairs specializing mostly in older nonfiction can keep you for hours. Feeling adventurous? Then check out its room of unsorted paperbacks. But be prepared to stand or sit on the stone floor--very few (if any) stools or chairs here...
Many people are in search of inspiration, and that need can be filled with the Square's book fare as well. The Thomas More Book Shop (1352 Mass. Ave.) in Holyoke Center offers a wide range of classical and modern works on theology and spirituality, though one should be prepared to spend a lot of money for enlightenment here. The Shambhala Booksellers (58 John F. Kennedy St.) offers an impressive selection in comparative religion, healing, occult sciences (Tarot, witchcraft, Qabalah), and mythology. These places are for the esoterically minded...
...Plympton St, one can find four bookstores. The Star Book Shop is one, and across the street, in the former site of the late Harvard Pizza, is McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (30 Plympton St.), with used and rare books. Another place, for those who tire of prose, is the famous Grolier Book Shop (6 Plymton St.), alive since 1927. "Minimum of prose" reads the sign in the window, and they speak the truth. Tall bookcases house poetry collections, little magazines, books about poets and their works, and casettes of readings. Special orders and mail orders can be done here...