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Word: beene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Cute is the last thing Woody wants to be. Though he calls jazz his hobby, he pursues it with the utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Michael's Pub, where the band finally landed a regular gig in 1971, has been the scene of more than a few light moments. When the Mets were in the 1986 World Series, sports-junkie Woody showed up with a tiny transistor television and propped it up on his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

In an effort to get even closer to the music he loves, Woody has been quietly rehearsing with a group of more New Orleans-oriented musicians for the past year or so. He remains vague about his ultimate plans for the group, but banjoist Davis says there is talk of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Woody Allen | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Still, the majority of book buyers are ignoring the lure of cheaper prices offered by some chains and are purchasing the remaining 60% from the nation's 6,000 privately owned shops. The independents, says Edward Morrow, president of the American Booksellers Association, "have never been stronger or healthier."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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