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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vaux then notes that Justin, a Harvard Law student who was a cast member in The Real World Hawaii season, looks like TinTin. "He has that haircut, and he just looks a lot like him in general. He actually left the show, though. He couldn't take...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Jamming with Prof. Vaux | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Abercrombie & Fitch, the right side of the first room opens up into the second room of the store. Motioning to the left, where a few racks of jackets end at a wall, Schor says, "There's no point in putting anything valuable over to the left--whereas, when you turn right they've forced you to go further into the store...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...half-clothed models, and perhaps refers in large part to one photo of a topless girl. Above the label on the cover, an Abercrombie-outfitted, buff young man stares through thick black-rimmed glasses, looking decidedly misunderstood sipping from a mug advertising a budget travel agency. The reader is left to his or her own devices to assume that, after spending hundreds of dollars on his sweatshirt and vest, the poor young man was forced to cut a few corners while backpacking through Europe...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...They got a bad deal," she says, motioning to the right, which ends abruptly with a wall. "They should have had the door on the left." We don't move very much around this store. Clumps of hangars seem to be closing in on us, and there's no real place to move...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...walk in, we can't turn to the right. Or left. But we do get sucked into a tunnel of table displays. Schor points out how similar the sales style is between the books here and the Abercrombie emblazoned T-shirts across the street. "What Barnes & Noble has done here is part of a shift from hand-selling a book as a unique commodity to selling books like they're selling anything -- Godiva, chocolates, calendars. . . anything...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shopping with Prof. Schor | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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