Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What insane lawyer would take such a devil of a case? The sisters find him in an Ole Miss grad (Peter MacNicol) who was smitten with Babe when she once served him pound cake at a church bazaar. Besides, he relishes "personal vendettas...
...fashioned bazaar bargaining has now been made easier by computers. The machines locate the parties that might be able to make a trade and then give money-like credits that can be used in future deals. Says James Blunt, vice president of marketing and sales at Barter Systems' six-month-old office in Stamford, Conn.: "We operate very much like a bank-a bank of goods and services instead of cash...
Although she didn't need to work, she began modeling for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. In 1934 she married Hugh Fenwick, but the marriage ended in divorce four years later, a matter she regards to this day as a personal failure. Left with two children and a load of debts, she had little choice but to go hunting for work. The Depression was still on. She finally got a job as a feature writer for Vogue, but only after a long search that opened her eyes to the problems of the poor. One department store refused...
Such deeper calculations are sorely needed as the world arms bazaar grows ever larger. Without them, the prospects for global control look grim, as grim as the prospects for peace in a world flooded with weapons so ubiquitous that even a child can tote one, so powerful that even a handful of terrorists can hold a society hostage...
...that is so, then gossip (whatever its individual destructiveness, which can be awesome-ask Othello) also serves as a profound daily act of community. In her novel Happy All the Time, Laurie Colwin has a character who prefers to call gossip "emotional speculation." Right. Through the great daily bazaar of bitchiness (men can be just as bitchy as women) passes a dense and bewildering parade of follies. They involve sex and money and alcohol and children and jobs and cruelty and treachery...