Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down to Neiman-Marcus and buy us a pound of culture and twelve talents.' The attitude was, whatever you want, just go to Neiman's and buy it. They had it right there on the shelf. I think Texas Stadium is Dallas' attempt to buy a pound of culture and twelve talents...
AFTER the hard but enjoyable labor of reading these little miracles, it seems a shame that the entire list can't be instantly awarded a place on the shelf next to the well thumbed offerings of de Maupassant, Chekhov, and Lawrence. Yet as Tyler cautions in her introductions, while a mediocre novel can fashion a place, a memory sheerly through fulsome persistance, even a very good short story is ephemeral. The Best American Short Stories is proud of its egalitarianism--unlike Prize Stories, it doesn't pick first, second, and third prizes. But this is faintly spurious democracy: we make...
What clocks have we forgotten in the past 60 years? Which among the clocks preserved ought in fact to be forgotten, set aside on a distant shelf like a porcelain dog? This midsection...
...Along with diet books, cat books and advisories on how to make a profit from the coming apocalypse, there is a growing shelf concerned solely with mastering that infuriating, six-sided, six-colored, 27-part boggier with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest
...dealers and consumers. Says Lally: "It is not enough any more to come up with a better product, with a better cost-performance ratio and new capabilities. Whoever controls the channels of distribution controls the market." The sheer volume of machines is clogging the market. Because of limits on shelf space and trained personnel, most computer stores can handle only three or four brands. Admits Sandow Ruby, the president of Tech Hi Fi, a chain with 65 outlets: "No one likes to look like a fool in front of his customers...