Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Little Shop of Horrors...
NOTHING HAS so eerily paralleled the plot of Little Shop of Horrors than the ever-growing pervasiveness of the movie/play/movie itself. Like the man-eating plant from outer space it chronicles, Little Shop began in a small, out-of-the-way place, attracting the fascination of all who gazed upon it. As a low-budget 1960 Roger Corman thriller, it was the ultimate cult film, a movie with a premise so unselfconsciously silly it just had to be watched...
...After seeing "Little Shop of Horrors," a North House student is strangled by an overgrown fern in his Botanical Gardens room...
...could not wave away. Ninoy's free-spirited ways, could never have been easy on his young wife. Yet it seems that her husband's private life exercised her no more than his public one. Wherever he was, Ninoy turned his home into a kind of 24-hour coffee shop in which the loquacious host and his associates would thrash out tactics through the night, while Cory waited on them. The ceaseless bustle must have placed a considerable strain on the retiring patrician woman. "Cory is an introvert, Ninoy was an extrovert," says Ninoy's favorite sister, Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara...
...identical everywhere and stores that unite the country in a fast-food mythology. The electric glass of Dallas could not be mistaken for Boston's pedagogical tweed or San Diego's white sail. In New York City this season, the sky dims by 4 in the afternoon, and the shop lights pop on like gold-and-white lanterns...