Word: proprietor
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...celibate single mom; he's a shiftless stud, currently shacked up with a dimwitted aerobics instructor. She's the owner of an Oakland, California, bookshop specializing in black studies; he's the proprietor of, and TV pitchman for, a car dealership. She wears authentic African garments to work and rides a bicycle everywhere; he favors inauthentic cowboy duds and hogs the road in a four-by-four. Oh, yes, she's black, and he's white...
...carrying them out. One of managing editor Jim Gaines' first steps after taking over TIME last February was hiring benign-looking Kurt Andersen, 38, editor of Spy magazine. If you haven't heard, Spy is the quintessence of witty and savage satire. It has not spared our proprietor, Time Warner, nor most other major American institutions. Have we unleashed a bomb thrower? Not to worry. Andersen, a man of very many talents, is a former writer in TIME's Nation section who wrote cover stores on Lee Iacocca, Jesse Helms and the death penalty. He is committed to our straight...
...feeling blue? Don't know what to do?/ Hey pal-I mean you/ ...C'mere and kill a president," chants the Proprietor at the opening of Assassins, the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical about the frustrated men and women who have attempted to assassinate presidents of the United States. Area theatergoers were afforded a rare treat this weekend as The Boston Conservatory staged an entirely professional and well executed production of Sondheim's latest work...
Some months later, I visited the beach at Badagry, not far from Lagos, Nigeria, which was an important slave-trading port, a place where manacles and other purported relics of the commerce in human beings are on display. The proprietor, an aging woman, told some Nigerian friends of mine that she would charge them 50 kobo (about $1) to examine the artifacts. You, she said, pointing to me, pay two naira (about $4). I protested that if the chains were indeed genuine, which I doubted, they might have been used to bind one of my ancestors; therefore, I didn...
...Flamme barber shop, whose skilledcoiffurists received kudos from the magazine,reacted more enthusiastically. GeorgePapalimberis, the store's proprietor, put hisexcitement succinctly...