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Bekken's suggestion that "locally-owned business serving residents of the surrounding working-class neighborhoods will be replaced by six floors of upscale chain stores and high-priced apartments" implies that Holmes nationwide chain stores will be exceedingly high-class and that the local residents will not be able to afford them. If this is true, it would result in a negative externality: the angry local residents would be forced out of local shopping areas by incoming affluent citizens, thereby disintegrating the current community...
Nestled between Sage's market and Billings and Stover Apothecaries, the store has an unassuming facade. Inside it exudes a close, homey feel. Even the low ceilings and stuffy atmosphere of the second floor are reminiscent of grandma's attic--a questionable image for an allegedly high-class clothing store...
Before last week, Lucianne Goldberg may have been best known as the author of a 1992 novel about a trio of high-class prostitutes, Madame Cleo's Girls. Readers may have come across other novels of hers as well, but not under her name: she has been a ghostwriter for celebs, a behind-the-scenes player who doesn't usually take the credit...
...satisfying to the earlier film's audience, if only that film's audience would go. As things stand, The Wings of the Dove is being sold as a Merchant Ivory picture and shepherded into theaters like Sony Harvard Square where no one would think to look for scarefests, however high-class and subtle...
...think that some obscure Democrat running for Governor of Texas and 50 percentage points behind in the polls wouldn't be able to corral a lot of high-class national Democratic talent to help in his campaign. But land commissioner GARRY MAURO, who announces his candidacy for the Lone Star State governorship this week, attracted some pretty impressive folks to his book-signing soiree in Washington not too long ago. We're talking fellow authors Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as best-selling scribe Al Gore. In addition, the First Lady has played host at a fund-raising dinner...