Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kiosk has stood in the Holyoke Center for three years. Passers-by can purchase toys, T-shirts, hats, ties, books, ornaments and stationery from the stand. The 1998 UNICEF catalog and literature on the organization are also available...
Each year the EPA compiles a catalog of the toxic chemicals discharged into the environment. Congress ordered the accounting after a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing thousands of people--and after the company released a smaller quantity of an equally toxic gas from its plant in Institute, W.Va., less than a year later...
Fairies, as Stella Beddoe makes clear in a beguiling catalog essay, are so much a fixture of English literature that it's no surprise they infiltrated English painting as well. In the 14th century Chaucer, via the Wife of Bath, was already pointing out that the elf queen and her company had retreated from human contact "manye hundred yeres ago," but their popular life continued to be irrepressible. Shakespeare is full of them--A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton...
...have been sold. Now the format is entering its third generation, with falling prices and added refinements (a muscular midrange unit like the new Toshiba SD-3108, seen here, is $699); 1,700 titles are available, and that number could triple this Christmas season with an infusion of back-catalog classics. Wary of splurging for a collection? In the home-theater market, legitimacy means that Blockbuster--and many local video stores--now have discs to rent. (Some even rent the players...
Mall rats beware: the Web isn't ready for you yet. Stores like Sears, Macy's and Home Depot use their sites as little more than corporate advertising. On the other hand, the well-known Spiegel catalog www.spiegel.com has converted to the Web pretty well; its paper and electronic versions actually interact. Of the Web-only stores, NetMarket www.netmarket.com is probably the best of a bad bunch; few sites recognize the importance of a large inventory, extensive product descriptions and fun. At least there's no Muzak...