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...list of advantages is the way Brooks manages its inventory. The company can put a new tie on the shelf, see how it sells and, if it's a runaway, make and ship more within days. At the factory, a tie starts at one end with a cutter like Ramirez and then works its way in a bundle of 50 down the football-field-size room. All 16 steps--including sewing the tie's blade to its tail, adding a lining, pressing the tip and turning the tie right side out--take about an hour. "The flexibility to reproduce something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sewn in the U.S.A. | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

Another import from Italy was the still life, and some of the most haunting canvases in this show are the paintings by Juan Sánchez Cotán. His practice was not so much to present as to isolate a few vegetables and pieces of fruit on a shelf or suspend them above it on strings. All are sharply lit before a deep black background, the simplest products of creation, not just seen but beheld, and summoning us from the darkness. What should we make of the mysterious gravity in these pictures? Perhaps just that in fiercely religious Spain, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanish Painters Bring Heaven to Boston Museum | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...filling other niches, as well.“We probably have more underground comics, comics by local creators, and reprints of old classics,” he says. “We have more humor, more collections of newspaper-strips,” he adds, pointing to an entire shelf of such collections, containing strips as old as “Dennis the Menace” and as new as “The Boondocks”.Those “underground” comics are also a big selling point. In one corner of the store, you can find...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KA-POW! | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...cauldrons of Hell so it arrives at its destination warm.) The lighter roast results in some brighter notes, but it also gives you a less full-bodied coffee - yet one that still tasted a little overboiled. (Maybe I'd caught the pot toward the end of its 30-minute shelf life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks' New Brew: A First Taste | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Buesser, who slipped the puck past Dartmouth goalie Carli Clemis.Harvard claimed a 3-0 advantage just over four minutes later, when a Wilson shot brought Clemis over to the right post, leaving the left side of the net wide open. Vaillancourt picked up the loose puck and went top shelf for the easy score.With the Crimson running away with the game, Dartmouth came back 16:36 into the second period when sophomore forward Sarah Parsons found open space on the ice and aimed a high shot at Harvard sophomore goalie Christina Kessler.Kessler got a glove on the puck but couldn?...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tourney Time: Frozen Four Awaits Crimson | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

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