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Toscanini's spacious shop is definitivewarehouse-chic. Wooden beams line the ceiling, thewalls are unadorned brick and flowers sit in glassbottles on every table. In the window next door tothe shop, we could watch the ice cream-makingprocess at work. And with single scoops at $1.35and double scoops at $2.14, Toscanini's is highlycost-efficient--that is, if you don't factor inthe 85-cent T fare...
...trail will then lead you to the North End,Boston's version of Little Italy, home of bakeriesand Italian Restaurants of varying quality andauthenticity. Several yuppie-chic restaurants haveopened to cater to the new residents who havemoved into the some the of the neighborhood'srecently gentrified buildings...
...leading producer of seafood and one of Asia's top tourist destinations. Living and educational standards have expanded enormously: in 1965 only about 16,000 Thais were attending college; today the number is perhaps 300,000. Bangkok has matured into an overcrowded (pop. 8 million), traffic-choked city boasting chic restaurants, satellite and cable TV, fax machines and all the other appurtenances of a thoroughly modern metropolis...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud of to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals looks like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are fond of affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure...
...theatrical as a butterfly. "Elegance and comfort," he once wrote, "are not incompatible." From the moment he began making shoes in 1907 until his death in 1960, his motto was that women did not have to suffer to be beautiful; shoes did not have to pinch to be chic...