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...place setting with an array of cutlery. The fish fork, I learn, is the one with ornate tines--smaller than the main-course fork--meant to debone fish. Here comes another list of rules for me to memorize: When you excuse yourself from the table midmeal, refold your napkin and put it on your chair. When you leave the table for good, put your napkin, neatly folded, to the right of your plate. And if you don't like the food, eat it anyway. Says Von Sperling: "I'm not going to blow a million-dollar deal by offending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manners Matters | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

Understandably, Neill is very organized. She admits, “I’m the type of person who, my mom would do my laundry and put it in the drawers, and I would have to take it out and refold it.” It is inevitable that she would become a closet organizer...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Closet Case | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...scheduling has to do with how you look,i Gomes says. iThey didnit put unpretty people on during peak times. The scrubby girls had to clean all the time. The greeters didnit even have to refold, just stay within the metal square.i...

Author: By Angela Marek, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Beautiful and the Damned: Enforcing 'the look' at Abercrombie & Fitch | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...technology in the form of a 1952 Buick, bought mainly to search for specimens in the West. Vera did the driving. Nabokov, with the security of a man who is good at nearly everything, easily concedes he cannot handle a car, adding generously, "There are some people who can refold maps, too, but I am not one of them." Every summer they coursed up and down Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Oregon in search for the feeding grounds of Nabokov's beloved "blues." Between butterflies, Vladimir sat beside Vera jotting on 3 by 5 cards. His notes were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Hamilton has been busted and that the sundial people are moving to Low and Fayer-weather to obstruct the police. I put vaseline on my face. I also put vaseline on my hands and arms and legs above the socks and a cigarette filter in each nostril and carefully refold my plastic bag gas mask so I'll be able to put it me, quickly with the holes at the back of my head so my hair will absorb the gas and I'll be able to breathe long enough to cool the cannister with a CO(2) fire extinguisher...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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