Word: shopped
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...salvage what's left of her rather disappointing life by becoming an actress. The spinster seamstress who lives next door is flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred by her need to care for her aged and dotty sister. You could perhaps characterize this as a Shop of Fools. You might also think of Caramel as another version of one of those agreeable, insignificant little comedies like Barbershop in which a group of amiable people yak and yuk their way toward provisional solutions to their petty, all-too-human problems...
Except for one thing: Caramel is set in Beirut, where its leading characters speak either Arabic or French and never speak of the terrible torments visited upon Lebanon by its recent, tragic history. The director, co-writer and star of the film, Nadine Labaki (she's the shop's owner) dedicates the film to "My" Beirut and she presents the city as unscarred by warfare and looking, frankly, rather chic - an up-and-coming Third World capital, which, of course, it once was before it was gripped by religio-ideological terror...
...there was a fire, it would have been an absolute disaster,” said the course’s professor, Henri Zerner, who estimated that as many as 400 students were attempting to shop the class...
...everyone's reveling in the good times. "Clubs are sitting in a pet shop window with a 'for sale sign'," laments Rogan Taylor, a Liverpool fan for almost half a century and the director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool. "[They] are not just businesses but much more important cultural and social assets for individual places ... This isn't the way these grand institutions should be traded." But with Liverpool among the Premier League's foreign-owned teams - Tom Hicks, owner of baseball's Texas Rangers, and George Gillett, owner of the Montreal Canadians hockey franchise...
...cream enthusiasts were whipped into action when over $100,000 in unpaid taxes and interest threatened to shut down Cambridge’s local Toscanini’s ice-cream and coffee shop. The business was seized by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue on Jan. 17 because the store had not paid tens of thousands of dollars in food and payroll taxes. In the days following the shuttering of the Central Square store, a blog entitled “Save Toscanini’s” opened with the intent of raising the dough needed to help the owners...