Word: bean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convey a sense of gravitas and architectural boogie-woogie. For a company that prides , itself on extreme frugality and makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable. After entering via a large red granite cube punched with dozens of not exactly functional windows, the army of bean counters who work there pass through a 120-ft.-tall, open-to-the-sky cylinder -- actually, a vast sundial -- whose floor is covered in loose river stones. Ever been to a cathedral on Venus...
Perhaps you have never heard of the Ski Team. Few people ever have. They can be found gathering off-season dry land training afternoons by the Winthrop Tree. Perhaps your first experience with a snowflake was just this past week, as you trudged to class wearing your L.L. Bean boots for the first time. Chances are, that same day, they were in front of Widener loading the van for tryouts a little further north, home of snow-making equipment hard at work...
...Beef and bean burrito...
...just the tip of the iceberg. Virtually every successful clothing store or catalog offers the same thing as the Gap. J. Crew is mail-order Gap. Tweeds is mailorder Gap with more patterns. Lands' End is mail-order Gap for more conservative dressers. L.L. Bean is mail-order Gap with plaid and boots. Bennetton is Gap with brighter colors. The Limited is Gap with more design. Banana Republic, which is owned by the Gap, is Gap with more pockets and more khaki...
...Mass. Ave. branch of the ice cream chain that created flavors like sombrero and vanilla bean speck closed last Friday, to be replaced by an Ultimate Bagel Company store...