Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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East Coast devotees of New Age thinking tend to favor faster-acting applications. Douglas Hardy, former manager of Star Magic, a space-age gift shop in Manhattan, suggests drinking gem and tonic -- literally, water "on the rocks" -- to get a "crystal hit." The crystal, it seems, sends its vibes through the water, which then charges up the person drinking it. Even more practical advocates suggest placing a cluster of "charged" crystals inside a refrigerator to accelerate cooling and thus reduce the electric bill or -- better yet -- attaching a 3-in. crystal to an auto carburetor to save on gas mileage...
When patients shop around, health-care providers want their names to come readily to mind. San Francisco's Mount Zion mails a quarterly newsletter called HealthWorks for Women to 30,000 local households. Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh has purchased a maternity-clothing store as another way of assisting pregnant women. United Hospital in St. Paul and Metropolitan Medical Center in Minneapolis helped create Nutritious Cuisine, a line of frozen dinners for the elderly. Other high-visibility programs include toll- free crisis lines and roving mammography vans...
...nutrition therapy have a serious health problem they cannot correct on their own. Others just fear they are headed for trouble. "I don't know anybody in my business who eats well," says Los Angeles Investment Counselor Jay Goldinger, who recently started seeing Hermien Lee to learn how to shop and eat well. He is delighted. "Everybody could use a nutritionist. It gives you discipline." Or helps if you have too little yourself...
...smirks, Little Shop is in the end a cowardly disappointment. The stage show earned respect because it showed universal dramatic rules applied in even the silliest of situations-- Seymour paid for his crimes. Oz told The Crimson he had originally shot the film with the theatrical ending, but that "test audiences" in San Jose, Calif., "didn't go for it." Movies have to have happy endings, he was told, and thus his Little Shop appeared with a happily-ever-after conclusion that contradicts what the play was about...
...despite the light-hearted joyfulness that pervades its Muppety murders and dismemberments, Oz' sanitized Little Shop is far more disturbing than its original version. Even happy-go-lucky killers should get what they deserve, not what they want...