Word: priceyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...traditional customer base," says Don Brown, a motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims a top speed of 140 m.p.h.--without the trademark earth-rumbling noise. "We wanted to make our own statement," says Willie...
...INTERNATIONAL PAPER: Move over, pricey hardcovers. Paperbacks are enjoying a big surge in sales, says PW. "Paperbacks are increasing in number and gaining legitimacy." Paperback originals are a more viable alternative, industry sources tell PW. The reason? As Border's spokesman puts it, "It's the price, stupid." GOING POSTAL: PW is thrilled by 'Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son' (Bloomsbury; September), giving it a starred review. The letters are a correspondence between the late poet Allen Ginsberg and his poet father, Louis. "Some of the most astonishing correspondence in American literature...
...constant push and shove past row upon row of Westernized joints and miniskirted cigarette and beer girls. The narrow space between the sidewalk seating and lines of inching taxis in the street throngs with people, mostly Chinese, who have come to check out the foreigners at play. Drinks are pricey, music is loud and there is more than a hint of illicit sex in the air. But something a little smoother is just around the corner...
...hasn't yet been reached. "The backyard has become another room in the house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year by the company that makes the humble old Weber. (Its top model, the $3,000 Summit 650, just wasn't pricey enough.) "It's the last place people had left to remodel." The handmade Vieluxe comes with such features as an integrated smoking system, a table that slides out to reveal two side burners, and what Vieluxe is calling "a concierge"--on call 24 hours a day to answer any questions...
...children of all ages stand along Yawkey Way before and after every game, hawking bootleg “Yankees suck” T-shirts. A week ago I went to an Allman Brothers concert at the Tweeter Center—a four-hour lovefest of billowing marijuana smoke and pricey hot dogs—and as I headed for the exit, do you know what the aging hippies were chanting? Not “Duane lives!” or “Bring back Dickey!” No, the crowd was yelling “Yankees suck...