Word: crates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murphy '99 have decided to embrace the concrete hulk that is Mather, merging their own style with the atrocious international-style architecture of Mather House. Recognizing that Mather, with its dark brown regulation carpeting and yellow-white walls does not easily accommodate those looking for the Laura Ashley or Crate & Barrel look, Hahn and Murphy chose to echo the color scheme of their house. In the common room, dark brown cork disks decorate a wall. Below the disks, a funky brown swivel chair and a colorful afghan blanket evoke memories of Dee-Lite...
...would take a while for her mother to reach Washington by train from New York City; Monica was frantic, and Starr's team had to calm her down. They bought her cookies. They watched Ethel Merman with her on TV. They took her shopping in the mall downstairs at Crate & Barrel. Lewinsky's father back in California had reached a longtime family friend, a medical malpractice lawyer named William Ginsburg, and Ginsburg reached Starr's team by phone around 10:30 that night. Ginsburg asked them to write down the terms of an immunity deal...
Most retro-bikes are seen with a basket, which can be attached to the front or the back. These include the small wicker model, the milk crate, the traditional metal grid and the snappable, apparently useless leather pouch which hides beneath and in back of the seat. Nothing may be carried in these baskets. The seat is either in black or tan leather and is most often eaten away at the edges by some sort of decades' old fungus. Handlebars must be upright in "cruising fashion," and the number of speeds may not exceed three. A "bell" is optional...
Comedy bits are interpolated, too; role-playing shows up most strongly in the uproariously funny newspaper scene, in which the cast member who's evidently been selected to play the "doofus" role during the show pantomimes sitting down on a wooden packing crate, surrounded by the other members of the company, to read his newspaper--and finds himself hopelessly distracted by the symphony of newspaper-rustling, throat-clearing and coughing that gradually builds up around...
Even outfits like Pottery Barn and Crate & Barrel, which have always had younger crowds, have had to adjust. "We used to always say our average age was 25 to 55," says Kahn. "We don't say that anymore. We feel the customer is getting younger...