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...firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain of Youth...
Among the traditional candies, however, were several ominous strangers. Someone picked up a round plastic box filled with innocent-looking pastel pellets. "What are these?" he asked. We didn't know. He popped one into his mouth. Ten seconds later, his eyes were teary and he was shrieking obscenities. We laughed at his pain...
...once bustling Ciglane market nearby, frustrated shoppers picked through the meager offerings, then left with mostly empty plastic bags. There were potatoes the day before, but they sold out in less than five minutes. On Thursday huge cans of cucumbers were available for about half the average monthly wage. Bottles of beer and slivovitz -- hoarded or, as many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma...
...Square's unparalleled ice cream selection made our morning tense and our time precious--six ice cream appointments in a four-hour period gave us little time to dawdle over our plastic spoons and paper dishes. Notebooks in hands and hair dripping, we scanned the atmosphere, checked the prices and tasted the wares: Chocolate, Vanilla and one or more of the stores' speciality flavors...
...reason to transfer to UC-Santa Cruz. From the West Coaster homesick for salty ocean spray to the land-locked Midlander who wants to discover the wonders of the sea, this area has something to offer anyone who wants to go wading in something other than a plastic baby pool...