Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Coop, CVS, Rix and Store 24 all carry similar supplies of toiletries, their selections differ in office supplies. The Coop, in general, offers greater variety than its competitors, although Bob Slate on Mass. Ave. also sells a wide range of stationery items. In round-ring notebook binders, for example, the Coop sells 12 different types, with varying ring size and binding material. Bob Slate sells 10, while none of the other stores sell more than...
...summer of 1936, Helms covered America's greatest hero, Charles Lindbergh, who became frightened by German air might after Hermann Göring showed him the huge air force he was building. That September, Helms was in Nuremberg at the Nazi Party Congress, where uniformed ranks roared their devotion to Hitler and flights of new bombers thundered endlessly overhead. In all his subsequent years in and around power, Helms has never seen anything quite like...
...phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry the imprimatur of high-fashion designers, hide in leather boxes or chime instead of ring. Prices range from $15 for a non-Bell version of the standard rotary dial phone in basic black to the "Elephone," a unit encased in a silver-plated elephant's head that costs...
...converter. Buyers who ask Ma Bell to make the hookup, however, can be charged up to $40 an hour. Some phones now being offered for sale are cheaply assembled and may last only about two years, compared with the old AT&Tphones that were designed to dial and ring for 15 to 20 years. Although the Bell System still makes free repairs on the phones that it leases, it charges about $30 for a service call on a customer-owned phone. With the cost of phones declining, ITT's Miller predicts that buyers will some day opt for cheap...
...years later; Chéreau's Ring seems less outrageous than adventurous, and it has influenced succeeding productions of Wagner at Bayreuth. Syberberg's daring Parsifal, on the other hand, is likely to become a curiosity. Truly cinematic opera remains a Grail-like goal, waiting for its own Parsifal to redeem the promise of artistic salvation...