Word: dealer
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...third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers for Clockers. In preparation for that book, he dropped into the lives of people - narcs, druglords, ghetto mothers - who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced and abandoned...
Wechsler grew up in a liberal Jewish family in New York in the 1930’s, his father an art dealer and his mother an Estonian immigrant. Despite financial troubles, his parents provided him with an elite education that culminated at Harvard, where he majored in economics, focusing on workers’ unions...
...Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of The Sorceror. The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at the outdated Victorian values of its time, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences. Through Saturday, April...
...sputtered last year, the RV industry was catapulted out of a downturn and into its second best year since the Iran oil crisis pummeled the business in 1979. The industry tends to be one of the first to recover from a recession; after a gut-punching 2001, factory-to-dealer deliveries jumped 21% last year to 311,000 units, and sales approached $11 billion. Rentals were up by a third. "The demographics are pretty locked in for the next 25 to 30 years," says Hertzke. "Our whole industry is going to do extremely well...
...Emett, 42, a 911 call-center manager in Monrovia, Calif., bought a 22-ft. slideless motor home in 2000 and a year later upgraded to a 31-footer with one slide. Then last fall he went to his dealer to buy some supplies and left with a 38-footer with two slides. "We're not trying to keep up with the Joneses," Emett says, noting that he still drives a 1989 Mercedes. "We just needed more space...