Word: cratefuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pollsters, trend watchers and merchants are convinced that couples are getting married earlier than a few years ago. Bette Kahn, spokeswoman for Crate & Barrel, and Donata Maggipinto, director of food and entertainment for Williams-Sonoma, say the brides being listed on their registries are younger. Carolyn Campbell, owner of Los Angeles' Wedding Library, which serves thousands of brides, says their average age in 1990 was 27; today it's 24. Notes Marci Blum, a New York wedding consultant: "I look around the room and think, 'You should be in high chairs...
...sorry to see it go," said Kathleen, a salesperson at the Crate & Barrel who would only provide her first name. "I just hope some restaurant takes its place...
...Their parents pay $1,800 in tuition (unless they receive financial aid). Steven Bochco Productions could make do with the studios, editing suites and equipment. But in lieu of Bochco will be instructor David Schaeffler teaching a little girl, who is wearing a headset and standing on a milk crate, how to manipulate a large, 3-chip Sony studio camera. In the computer-graphics room, instructor Deena Segot will be critiquing an advanced camper's animation created in Macromedia Director. Later the same day, Segot will have beginner students draw butterflies in Fractal Design Painter. Like butterflies, children need freedom...
...obvious attention to descriptive detail, make her works accessible and easily appreciated by all. The first excerpt she quoted opened with this passage from her most famous book, The Women Warrior: "In the midnight unsteadiness we were back at the laundry, and my mother was sitting on an orange crate sorting dirty clothes into mountains -- a sheet mountain, a white shirt mountain, a dark shirt mountain, a workpants mountain, a little hill of socks pinned together in pairs, a little hill of handkerchiefs pinned to tags...
There are, however, as many variations on this latest get-rich-on-the-Internet scheme as there are firms that want to cash in on it. Companies like Zenith and Curtis Mathes are building new TVs that come out of the packing crate Net ready; others, like ViewCall America, are designing set-top boxes that plug into ordinary TVs and make them Web capable. Sony and Philips, for example, are licensing set-top technology from WebTV Networks, a company partly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Sega and Nintendo, meanwhile, are adding Internet capability to their video-game machines...