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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dudley route passes through streets lined with small merchants, one-room boutiques as well as cuchifrito parlors, whose size may spell chic to the shopper but struggle to the owners. If you're on the bus you can pick and choose from the multitude of storefronts, but behind each is an owner who spends six or seven days a week there, 52 weeks a year. Often the owners are the shop's only employees, working 12 hours a day and worrying the rest. In spite of their labor, roughly a third of these small proprietorships go bankrupt within a year...
Sack 57 is the only movie theater in Boston showing the film, whose budget has been estimated at $42 million--the most expensive in film history. A spokesman for the theater said yesterday that Sack 57 has not sold advance seats, but added she does anticipate long lines. The theater has not increased security because the staff can handle the crowds, she said...
EVERY DRUGSTORE in America is a small temple to narcissism, and in America nearly all women and a growing number of men (whose vanity is still under cultivation by Mad Ave) are defeated narcissists...
...soap opera Christmas season begins as soon as the World Series ends, and it proceeds in a hysterical fashion for three more months, milking the advertisers' good cheer for every last dime. Turn on a soap in the last quarter of the year. Even odds says some kid--whose father is in jail because they say he killed his wife's boyfriend who is not really her boyfriend because she is actually having an affair with her husband's sister--is discussing with his good-hearted grandfather where to spend the holidays. The grandfather is a doctor. Everybody on soaps...
Burger's Daughter, By Nadine Gordimer (Viking, $10.95): An elevating exploration of social commitment and the demands it places on a woman whose father has no doubts about his commitments in South Africa. She obviously has her doubts, and Gordimer portrays in heroic dimensions her attempts to carve out her own moral vision against the background of her father's consuming convictions. Gordimer's sensitive observations on South Africa's racial conflicts make for wrenching reading...