Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around supermarkets. Now they cluster around department stores and have become big, new "one-stop"' shopping centers. They are informal (women in slacks cause no raised eyebrows), have day nurseries for children, and generally stay open until 9 at night six days a week. They are the modern bazaar, where whole families can not only do their buying together but have an evening...
...week, excitement mounted in Teheran. Police and troops patrolled and watched the teeming streets and alleys; in the bazaar, the secret agents were everywhere. Beneath the great plane and pine trees in the Majlis gardens, long-robed deputies bargained and pledged their support. At issue: Who should sit in the speaker's chair of the Majlis? Should it be evil old Mullah Kashani, the incumbent, who would deal with anybody, including the Communists, to get power? Or should it be Premier Mossadegh's choice, a popular lawyer named Abdullah Moazzami...
...cover story and your speculation as to "how real can movies be" [TiME, June 8], you neglect a mention of the "feelies," [Aldous] Huxley's prophetic description [in Brave New World) of what civilization will be satiating itself on in some future popcorn bazaar. The feelies could not only be seen, smelt and heard but they could be "felt" with the aid of knobs attached to the arms of the viewer's chair. Thus a passionate kiss will become a personal sensation and a painful blow will become a source of masochistic satisfaction...
...Ville Verte. Le Corbusier envisions Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) as a magnificent ville verte (green city) - 14 square miles of gardens and buildings, with a center complex of government buildings surrounded by 25 self-sufficient residential sectors. Each sector will have its own bazaar, clinic, nursery school, police station, bank, cinema and swimming pool, will include 128 houses built according to 13 different designs...
...Brattle's company can look back with pride on what Harper's Bazaar called "the new Old Vic." And their amazing number of productions attests to their versatility and enthusiasm. Each member of the company filled in different types of roles, and doubled as stagehands of various types...