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From the parking lot of Good Time Emporium, the late-night crowd began to filter through the double-doors; the melange of characters included packs of greasy-haired junior school punks, permed teenage girls donning skin-tight Wrangler jeans and an occasional preschooler in an XXS patent leather jacket. The cab driver refused to use the word "emporium," insisting that my friends and I were mistakenly visiting his old billiards hang-out, "Good Time Callie's." The towering marquees, however, confirmed that we were entering the famed den of Somerville carousal and inflated Michelob paraphernalia. Before gaining admittance...
According to Liu, the customer base is a "pretty typical" mixture of Chinese and non-Chinese, made up mostly of young people. She says the dining room is packed during the day with the Central Square lunch crowd, and at night the students and locals begin to filter...
...According to Liu, the customer base is a "pretty typical" mixture of Chinese and non-Chinese, made up mostly of young people. She says the dining room is packed during the day with the Central Square lunch crowd, and at night the students and locals begin to filter...
...version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes with an e-mail product, Outlook Express, that automatically sorts out junk mail and puts in the trash. Trouble is, the filter sometimes mistakes legitimate correspondence for spam, and that's what's been happening to the digital Christmas cards that people have been sending via Blue Mountain. Microsoft was ordered to provide Blue Mountain by Tuesday with whatever information it needed to bypass the overzealous filter -- which, ironically, trashes Microsoft e-cards too -- and must post warnings on the product alerting users to the potential for lost mail. Microsoft had tried...
...pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas. Years later, with the creation of the Doughboy, Burnett employed a cuddly endomorph to symbolize the friendly bounce of Pillsbury home-baking products. Aiming at male audiences in the '50s, a time when filter cigarettes were viewed as effeminate, Burnett introduced a tough and silent tattooed cowboy on horseback, "the most masculine type of man," he explained, to transform the image of Marlboro cigarettes--for better or worse, one of the most enduring advertising icons ever devised...