Word: cvs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Free samples of Stride gum?” asked the two pretty blondes standing outside of the Mass. Ave. CVS last Wednesday afternoon. Passers-by were offered colorful handfuls of sample-sized gum by pairs of young women stationed on either side of the street. Some hold their hands out mechanically to receive the gum, barely breaking their stride, while others ignore the women completely: preoccupied, irritated, or just utterly uninterested. On any given day, the odds of finding freebies of some sort around the intersection of Mass. Ave. and JFK St. are fairly good. While this sort of marketing...
...just had some leggings lying around and she felt it would be a good dog-walking outfit. It’s not like everyone dresses up like Cruella de Vil when they walk dogs.” I walked contentedly on, deciding that I was going to swing by CVS to get US Magazine and some Twizzlers instead of bubble tea. And then I saw it. Leggings were everywhere. Leggings tucked into boots. Leggings with a dress. Leggings under a gigantic oversized shirt with a silkscreen of Blondie’s face. “What the hell...
...university graduates to work for a company that underwrites genocide. For seniors seeking jobs after graduation, the deadline to apply for UBS is Nov. 15. For students applying for internships at the investment bank, the deadline is next March 15. If the budding bankers of Harvard submit their CVs to UBS, they will be adding manpower to a bank that—indirectly—is complicit in one of the most horrific humanitarian crisis on the planet. But Harvard students have another option: we can tell UBS that by underwriting genocide, UBS will undermine its own recruitment efforts...
...those who need an electric chain saw to carve pumpkins, Home Depot provides one-stop stopping. Cons: In addition to the terrible selection, the pumpkins are probably last year’s leftovers. Which were probably the year before that year’s leftovers. And so forth. CVS Pharmacy Mass Ave. Pros: It’s 24/7. It is across the street from the Yard. It has Halloween candy. Cons: No pumpkins...
...temperatures drop, jackets get thicker, and schoolwork begins in earnest, we also observe two changes in color: the leaves, which turn from green to red and yellow, and the CVS candy aisle, which turns first to orange and then to green and red.If we’re to believe the recent buzz about eating locally and seasonally, the progression of seasons should be accompanied by more pronounced changes in our diet—perhaps more butternut squash. As it is, the only edible indication of our tilting away from the sun is the repackaging and reshaping of that most artificial...