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...bread counter, where they're likely to be giving out morsels of cheddar cheese dill bread or sesame semolina. Stores known to provide free samples are more likely to get my business. At Fresh Fields, a yuppie-style grocery store in Washington owned by Boston's Bread and Circus chain, the savvy customer can eat practically an entire lunch just by grazing from the sample baskets. Tacky? I guess so. Yummy...
...Raleigh frame in a rust-eaten variant of burnt umber, olive, electric blue or the ever-present black. The metallic frame comes over both the front and back wheels half-way and preferably, in the purest strains of retro-bike, has an irregularly shaped casing over the chain. Schwinns are also acceptable models...
...dollars later, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of Isaiah Berlin. (Apologies to all fellow small-bookstore fans for not being able to tell a more pleasant tale of finding that special, most thoughtful and desperately desired book at anything other than a branch of the biggest bookstore chain in the country...
...even if that chain of events never occurs, some analysts believe the U.S. is headed for a recession, or severe slowdown, in 1998, all on its own. If they are right, Monday's plunge may have been the first shot across the proverbial bow, with others to follow. Those who so quickly dismissed the sell-off and are now boasting of buying at the bottom may find they were wrong...
Take for example "The Way Things Go," a 30 minute film of chain reactions which could only have been imagined by a crazy inventor with too much time on his hands and too much space in his garage. In one fantastically long domino-like progression, a bottle of water tips to fill a cup on a see-saw, which raises a candle that ignites an explosion, sending spirals of fire to fuel the next event in an apparently endless chain...