Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consignment of 50 clockwork timers, exactly like those used in the bombings, was traced to one of the suspects, a bookseller from Padua named Franco Freda. Furthermore, the briefcases in which the bombs were hidden were all purchased in a Padua store only a block from Freda's bookshop. Worst of all, it now appears that high-ranking police officials tried to conceal some of this evidence...
Quite a few people this side of the Grolier bookshop, not otherwise philistines, have recently admitted that they don't read poetry the way they used to. Too difficult, they argue; takes too much patience. There's too much of it, and most of it isn't applicable to our lives, anyway. Rather see a Fellini movie or listen to a rock orgy on the radio...
...uncle, William Alexander. The publisher did not think enough of the nephew's effort to submit it for the National Book Awards, but it won anyway, after a shaggy-dog sequence of events that began when the late A.J. Liebling picked the book off a New Orleans bookshop table and ended when he touted it to his wife, Jean Stafford, who was a book-award judge that year...
...through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...
...world. The bleakness of Miss Lonely-hearts and The Day of the Locust reflect West's own isolation. He was always very shy, had few friends and never attended school regularly. After graduating from college he left immediately for Paris and from a dark corner in Sylvia Beach's bookshop watched Joyce and Hemingway browse through the stacks...