Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gradually picked up the jargon: "Endgap" is the shelf at the end of an aisle: a "cutter" is a razor blade with a sheath: "fills" are sets of chores involving filling endcaps by opening cartons with cutters. A "carryout" means helping a perfectly healthy old lady carry six bottles of Sprite and getting stiffed...
Worst of all, I found out that we didn't even have control over our own store. Everything was decided by the Central Office. They told us where the lawn mowers should be put on the shelf, and where the shelf should be put in the store. They even told us exactly what to say at night. "Attention Super-Saver shoppers. It is now 9:30 p.m., and Super-Saver is preparing to close. Please-bring all final purchases forward for a quick and efficient check-out. Super-Saver will be open again tomorrow morning at nine for your shopping...
When Richard D. Brecht was denied tenure in the spring of 1979, he took the unfinished 500-page manuscript of his book on tense in Russian grammar and packed it in a box on shelf. It has remained there ever since, although the shelf is no longer in Cambridge--Brecht's home since 1965--but at the University of Maryland, where he is now chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures...
Once upon a time, those works were below the eye level of publishers as well as buyers. They were all right in their place, but their place was the end of the book review section, the bottom of the shelf and the back of the catalogue. Today that illustrated literature has become a $200 million business whose profits are often handsome enough to compensate for deficits in the sales of adult books. Says Frank Scioscia, sales manager for junior books at Harper & Row: "The children's book business has enjoyed a consistent increase in sales, even though school funds...
...Oncle d'Amerique-and if every film were as witty and well crafted-our colleges would be filled with scholars and our movie theaters with works of art. What may look at first like a film experiment as dry as the dust on a neglected library shelf turns out to be a spectacular juggling act: of documentary and fiction, analysis and creativity, determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their own pasts have prepared them for this challenge. Gruault...