Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outset, is a trademark of the Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after Xerox...
...tragedy is not the only reason why people are watching Mary Hartman. The show's fascination lies in its oddly shifting tone. Almost all of the characters are confused. Mary herself is usually slack-jawed with bafflement-about her sister, who has fallen in with the local massage-parlor king; her grandfather, "the Fernwood Flasher"; and most of all by her stolid and truly enigmatic husband Tom. Though he is having an affair with Mae, a comely co-worker at the plant, he is impotent with Mary. The situation makes him terse and glum...
...having greatly influenced Gauguin, Cézanne, Seurat, blue-period Picasso and especially Vincent Van Gogh. Later, modernism lost interest in images of rural labor; they were derided as sentimental masscult. Millet sank from view, leaving behind one obdurate cliché: The Angelus, in its tacky frame, on every parlor wall...
...looks like just another neighborhood ice cream parlor. There's a honky-tonk piano in one corner and Swedish ivy and wandering jews hang from the ceiling. You can put granola or wheat germ on your natural carob fudge ice cream. The manager, Jeff Lessard, whom everyone just calls Jeff, is an easygoing, non-professional-looking fellow who seems to have taken lessons from Steve, over in Somerville...
Lessard said that recently business has suffered because of publicity connected with the consent order. "We're not half as busy as we were," he said. Lessard believes that his troubles represent "the beginning of the end of the small ice cream parlor...