Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goldfish tank has disappeared, along with the chessboard -- it is still a neighborhood cafe. It bears its literary traditions lightly. It hardly remembers that Saul Bellow used to drink here, and William Faulkner too, or that Djuna Barnes set several scenes in Nightwood here. In fact, when the proprietor was once asked what she remembered of Barnes, she said she had never heard of her. But the two coupes of icy Pommery tasted grand. Hemingway was right: Paris is much changed, but the moveable feast can still be celebrated...
...atrocities, but it is beginning to regain some of its old spirit. Rice and other foodstuffs are fairly plentiful again in the large central market, as are Heineken beer, gold jewelry and Casio calculators. Prices tend to fluctuate with rumors of peace. But, says Le Hor, a proprietor at one of the market's stalls, "here we are relatively safe and don't think the Khmer Rouge are dangerous." Then he adds, "I'm not sure they feel so confident in the ((western)) border areas...
...many decades ago, most newspapers and magazines and packages and signs looked the way they looked more or less serendipitously. They were the result of a proprietor's quirky, untutored taste, or a printer's feeling that Garamond was a classy typeface, or a general notion that things had always been done that way. Today practically everything is designed. Record-album covers and annual reports and dog-food labels are self-consciously wrought and overwrought, fussed with endlessly to get the connotations just right. This very page, with its six typefaces in ten sizes and thin horizontal and vertical rules...
...incredible learning experience," says Laurie Ciarti '90, a co-proprietor for the Dunster grill. "It teaches you how to run a business, how to deal with people and keep a payroll...
...involved. She, in fact, has a steady boyfriend who goes to Brown (the school Stuart faked on his resume). She was more important to Charles than Charles was to her, perhaps because she fit into Stuart's deluded vision of himself as a fashionable restaurateur -- he the proprietor and chef, she the Waspish blond out front...