Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trusts them totally. Between the two of them, they gently but firmly supply organization to the organization. That is not easy in an office atmosphere resembling, as Spielberg says proudly, the raunchy cantina in Star Wars. When he makes movies, Spielberg explains, "it's like a Middle Eastern bazaar. The more chaotic it is, the more I find my priorities. If it is calm, it is el snoro." Says Marshall: "He has an idea every 13 seconds. I have to figure out how serious they are. If he wants to do something, I figure out how to make...
...youth set free from the narrow confines of hometown and ceremonial life. Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from South Boston to the other up of America in The Patagonian Express. Calm and without the intensity of Kerouac, both books afford homebodies a glimpse of the world away from the crackerjack, automatic world of T.V. sets and interest rates...
...rice and sugar are distributed to poor and working-class areas first. Still, Tehran does not give the appearance of extreme hardship. Traffic jams can be paralyzing, and almost anything can be had for a price. A pair of blue jeans imported from Taiwan goes for $100 in the bazaar...
OPEC has long been labeled a cartel, but it is really little more than an association of bazaar traders. A successful cartel, says any definition, must be able to control production and thereby set prices in good and bad times. The failure of OPEC to do that now makes it a sort of fair-weather cartel, strong in the late 1970s when the world's economies were buoy ant and had high demand for its oil, but weak now when Europe and the U.S. are less dependent upon its energy...
...today, the Macy's of Harvard Square offers 200 varieties in a special two-floor bazaar of the seasons. You could spend hours there and never get past March. How could anyone know whether Granny would prefer Vermont Life, New Hampshire Profiles, Cape Cod and the Islands or Martha's Vineyard...