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However, Murphy said, he real winter holidays for the Coop are these days of the semi-annual ritual of buying textbooks and other class essentials...
Mental arithmetic, faced by this weird plastic plush -- seven inches or so of tube per hole, 80 holes on each side -- yields about 3 1/2 miles of plastic tubing; one imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...
Bart St. Clair is terrific as the semi-sadist in question. He also sends up a series of characters seeking to cash in on Seymour's sudden success, portraying everyone from Clair Booth Luce to a William Morris agent. And as the voice and puppeteer of Audrey II, respectively, Toby Blackwell and Bill Tomlinson create such a wonderful "mean green mother" of a plant that you almost start rooting...
...Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
...without fail, the fans religiously packed it in for every conference or semi-major game...