Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...
...Munford, Inc., which has its headquarters in Atlanta, expects to ring up sales as high as $350 million this year, v. $273 million last year. The company operates two chains of stores: the 1,400 MAJIK "convenience" stores (open late into the night) and 90 World Bazaar stores selling imported goods. Even so Munford ranks behind two other Southern-based firms in both major areas of its business. The biggest convenience-store chain is Southland (the 7-Eleven stores) based in Dallas; the biggest import chain is Pier 1 with head offices in Fort Worth...
Stare's fund raising strategy extends to his fairly extensive writing. He writes on occasion for magazines like Harper's Bazaar, he explains, for a very specific reason: "... you might wonder what the hell [I] have an article in Harper's Bazaar for, but it's a very influential magazine because women read it sitting under hair dryers, and many of these women are wives of important people and foundation executives...
Rothman says, however, that he is doing his part to reverse the deterioration of his once-proud neighborhood over the past several decades. He recently purchased the old Harvard Bazaar building on Mass Ave, and is currently converting it into housing for the elderly; he says he is "constantly renovating" his apartment units at his own expense...
...step over yoga parlors, t'ai chi ranches, Scientology centers, Subud temples, Sufi congregations, TM ashrams, Hare Krishna missions, Zen monasteries, astrology academies and tarot prophets. The flyways from East to West are dense with flocks of migratory swamis who come bearing wisdom and go lugging gold. A bazaar of the bizarre if ever there was one, and its most exotic merchandise, the pearl beyond price, is something known as brahmacaryam, samadhi, marafat or, in plain English, the mystical experience...