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...heart sinks. Heftige malerei, the German critics used to call it, "heavyweight painting," and it was certainly crude enough for three drunken gnomes and a village woodcutter. Inch-thick paint (the stuff that used to mean "sincerity" in the 1980s, remember?) and sculptures mutilated from tree roots with chain saws. All this rhetoric, now so comic, had its equivalents in the States (think of Julian Schnabel and his pretensions), but Germany was its homeland, or Heimat, if the word didn't still sound residually Hitlerian...
...thinner friends, she always had trouble finding fashionable clothes that fit her full-size figure. Then she discovered Torrid, the first mall-based boutique for plus-size teens. "Before, I wore a lot of boys' clothes," she says, browsing the Torrid store in Brea, Calif., one of the chain's six outlets. "[Now] I feel more feminine...
Combating this slow extinction of independent bookstores at the hands of chain stores and online book retailers is a serious concern. Chain stores like Barnes & Noble, which runs the Harvard Coop, provide a wide selection of popular titles. However, they rarely offer shelf space for academic titles, lesser known books from smaller publishers or works by unknown authors. Independent bookstores fill this gap and provide a range of titles outside the popular and publicized sphere of the chain store...
...small size and cozy atmosphere of independents helps stimulate relationships between patrons and employees. While chain store staff often remain nameless, working short shifts and lacking continuity, independents’ employees are the owners and managers themselves and are almost always around—a much more familial design. Kramer has been running Harvard Book Store for over 40 years, and he’s not even the store’s oldest employee. Long-term employees of Harvard Book Store share in the company’s profits, and the store negotiates with unions without the aid of lawyers?...
Neither of those two moves paid dividends for the Crimson—save, of course, for being a part of the incredible overall chain of events that produced a 12-12 tie going into the bottom of the ninth. And Harvard did get to that point, didn?...