Word: butter
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Treasure Chests. Secondhand shoppers are discovering that thrift shops are often treasure chests of remarkable goods. Coats with real mink collars are sometimes found among last year's ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only...
Vast Range. Turner's was not a "normal" life but a long exertion. He had little art training. His father, a Covent Garden wigmaker, exploited him, egging him on to turn out hundreds of bread-and-butter illustrations. His mother died mad, which seems to have inhibited Turner from trusting women; for sex he went to dockside whores, and for security and approval he turned to an institution, the Royal Academy. Nearly all his emotional energies were displaced into his work. Its sheer volume was astounding: the British Museum alone has 19,000 watercolors, color notes and travel drawings...
...popcorn last Friday night. Its fourth annual Midnight Concert, a late-night supper of light, easily-digestible music, strove too hard for broad mass appeal. The program--the most commercial work of Benjamin Britten, the showiest piece of Debussy, and one of the plainest concertii of Mozart--was all butter and no salt...
...economic program adopted by the delegates was less reminiscent of the social-action plans of the '60s than it was of the bread-and-butter reforms of the '30s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled together North and South, laborers, farmers and white collar workers...
David R. Inglis, a University of Massachusetts-Amherst professor of physics who worked on the Union-Sierra Club report, said yesterday the reports' conclusions differ because the AEC report was written by people "whose bread and butter comes from the nuclear enterprise...