Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together with newer ones of Che and Mao. The shelves are stacked high with used, decaying paperbacks, works of Balzac, Stendahl, and Marx. An old wooden table, painted blue, runs along the middle of the store. On it sit a stack of copies of "The Daily World" and some paper cups half filled with stale coffee...
...risk was that the U.S. command could switch scrip at any time and thus leave speculators holding worthless paper-which is exactly what happened last week. Inside their bases, American personnel were instructed to cash in their MFCs for a series of crisp new ones. They were allowed to exchange up to $250 worth, with no questions asked, but had to give a strict accounting of how they had acquired any MFCs above that amount...
Borrowing from several "dry" image-forming processes, the machine operates at a rate of one copy per minute, using specially treated paper. The company has so far been silent on the product's price, but concedes that it will run somewhat higher than the cost of black-and-white copiers. Even so, color copying should catch on for duplicating a wide variety of material, including color-coded organizational charts, splashy advertising layouts and blueprints that actually turn out blue...
...revolt against his immediate past he turned back to the present, to the words he had neglected during his years in the Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy. He might have seen Miller's desire to record all of the American spirit as an impossible...
...Paper Lion--An ambitious attempt to depict George Plimpton in all his complexity. Sports columnists seem to like it better than movie reviewers do. At the GARY, Stuart near Tremont...