Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April of 1976, Mr. Hoagland, who presently operates Eugene's, owns the real estate on Mass Ave from the bicycle shop to the theatres, and started the cinemas in 1969, sold the cinemas and leased the theater space to Cate Enterprises, whose sole business is motion picture exhibition, distribution and marketing. Since that sale in 1976, Mr. Hoagland has played no role in the ownership, management, operation and policies of the cinemas...
...Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac, a Mustang, a customized Dodge van and a motorcycle...
Toffler's postindustrial preview also contains "electronic cottages," homes equipped with computer terminals, two-way TV and assorted hot lines. Citizens may not have to leave the house to conduct business, shop or even vote. In such an age of bread and circuitry there is no telling how powerful one might become. Says Toffler solemnly: "One can imagine a stage at which even ordinary television becomes interactive, so that instead of merely watching some Archie Bunker or Mary Tyler Moore of the future, we are actually able to talk to them and influence their behavior in the show...
...evening, above the ice cream shop, the Sikhs practice the rituals of their predecessors, stretching, contorting, ventilating, and "oaming" to gain the higher consciousness, the ultimate. Below they walk on Mass. Ave. in clean, placidity amidst the chaos. As Siri Guru Granth Sahib says, "As a swan glides upon the water but does not wet its feathers, so a Sikh lives in the world but keeps his mind fixed...
...they leave anything out? They have Johnson and Nixon, and the draft lottery (and the anxiety it caused) on television, a confrontation in the Harvard Yard between cops and students, liberated women taking karate lessons and putting on antimale skits, a bookstore being converted into a head shop, a onetime Eagle Scout becoming a member of the Weather Underground, suggestions of a certain uninhibitedness or, anyway, bluntness about sex-why, the principals even set up a ménage à trois toward the end of the picture...