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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...stores." He is counting on the convenience of mail-order shopping, and may have hit on a winning enterprise. Still, the thriving independents hope that buying a book from your armchair catalog won't be so satisfying as browsing through a volume in an armchair at your local mom-and-pop shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...enigmatic center of Sea of Love (sensible working mom or psycho killer?) and as the unblinking ultra-bitch in Johnny Handsome, this fine, ferocious actress has hit her Hollywood stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 17 OCTOBER 23, 1989 | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...this was not the time to get overly complicated about the whole affair. I dumped all of my clothes in a washer, smacked in 75 cents, and washed cold. Mom had mentioned that cold washing prevents color bleeding...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Saying the 'L' Word to the Folks | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

...Mom, you're great, I thought, and even though I'm a laundry ignoramus right now, I appreciate all those years you did my laundry...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Saying the 'L' Word to the Folks | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

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