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Our Gang is hardly a major addition to Roth's literary output--although I'm sure the House of Random will do its damnedest to make us think otherwise--but it is a most valuable one. For there should be room on the shelves for minor works from major authors...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hey kids, what time is it? It's Richard Nixon time! | 10/29/1971 | See Source »

The National Retail Merchants Association estimates that private labels account for a phenomenal 60% of the annual $42 billion in department-store sales. More than 90% of Sears, Roebuck's volume is in its own private labels, making it the largest outlet for such brands. In supermarkets, 10% to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTS: The Public's Crush On Private Labels | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

Expected to sell for about $10 when it appears on store shelves this week, the kit consists of a blue plastic tray of diluted chemicals, four test tubes, five "dropping bottles," a funnel, magnifying glass, microscope slides, a smoke chart and parts for assembling a "smoke trap." One of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Junior Vigilantes | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

Wine lovers have long cultivated their own peculiar vocabulary. A vintage can be "flinty," "robust" or even "amusingly presumptuous." Never, however, has a wine been discussed in terms of its lemon, lime or coconut flavor. Never, that is, until now. Flavored "pop" wines have arrived and are showing up on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: And Now, Pop Wines | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Pop-wine aficionados have an answer for such snobbery: flavored wines have been around for a long time. Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: And Now, Pop Wines | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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