Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that splendid shrine, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, does include the Costume Institute, albeit tucked away in the basement. According to Hollander, such efforts miss the point: "Like stage costumes, couturiers' work is often embalmed in exhibitions that can be ghastly essays in necrophilia." She scorns equally "efforts to chain [fashion] up in Cultural Studies." In Feeding the Eye, a new collection of previously published essays, Hollander furthers her project of making the world safe for fashion criticism...
...also said that managing growth in East Somerville is a challenge. She pointed to the recent debate over whether IKEA, a furniture store chain, should be allowed to construct a 'big box' type store near the Mystic riverfront as an example of the problem the city faces. The Mystic Task Force, a group advocating pedestrian-minded redevelopment, disapproves of the new construction...
...other council business, council candidate James M. Williamson criticized the council in the public comment section of the meeting for not preserving The Tasty, a longtime independent restaurant in the center of Harvard Square which closed in November 1997. The new Read Block, which includes chain stores Abercrombie and Fitch and Pacific Sunwear, replaced the restaurant this year...
...youngest of eight children in an Irish immigrant family, Naughton, who is married, had achieved the kind of success and air of invincibility that have become common among highflyers in the dotcom world. "I'm glad I'm at the top of the food chain," he wrote in a 1997 article for Forbes ASAP. But in his ramblings as hotseattle, he was playing an even more dangerous game than he realized. According to the FBI, he was pursuing another 13-year-old girl in the same chatroom. She turned out to be an FBI agent...
...fear that caused Tom Furber to found HomeRuns.com an online grocery-delivery business, in 1996. "I was very concerned that somebody else not in the grocery-retailing space was going to beat us to it," says Furber, vice president for Hannaford Bros., the Scarborough, Maine, supermarket chain that saw $3.3 billion in revenues in 1998, and has since been acquired by Food Lion. "In hindsight, we could have gotten into this later...