Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shop strikes you at first by its altogether workaday decor; it looks like a tacky, run-down coffee shop, with signs advertising "water vibrations, spiritual hearing, tarot." When I was there, Christmas Muzak was being played. The several tea leaf readers go from table to table talking with people and dumping tea cups upside down to decipher the leaves...
...longer you sit there, the more pathetic and foolish the shop seems, and you with it. The plants and gaudy red flowers on all the tables are plastic. The eyes of the older woman reader, with heavy make-up, arched eyebrows, gypsy rings and long red dress, dart about like those of a nervous crank, making sure the other readers don't take her customers. She offers such wisdom as, "you have a dog who loves you very much [the man is blind and has a seeing-eye dog next to him]. I see a woman coming into your life...
Flynn also stressed the importance of state aid in covering Boston's expected $40 million budget deficit, describing what he called "an extended city." He said suburbanites should pay more for the services they use when they shop and work in Boston; he also said he wold try to get Boston's tax-exempt institutions to increase their in-lieu-of-tax payments to the city
...firemen and ambulances sped to the scene, police closed off the area by stringing white plastic tape from lampposts. Across the side street where the blast occurred, Munna Malik, 33, had been serving customers in a clothing store near by when the explosion blew in the windows of his shop. He escaped through a rear fire exit and returned to the street, where he found three bodies and a dead dog beside the flaming remains of a car. Said Malik: "Only the legs of a policeman were recognizable as human. He had no face left...
Shoppers seem to feel a sense of urgency this year, inspired partly by spot shortages of such popular gifts as exercise wear and stuffed toys. Said Michael Brownlow, a railroad conductor from Doraville, Ga., who took a day off last week to shop in a suburban Atlanta mall: "If you wait until the last minute, things will be gone. I had to get up Sunday morning and stand in line for half an hour just to get one of the toys my son wanted." Parents often have to act like detectives to find such other scarce playthings as Return...