Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dashed Hopes. Power! appeals mostly to anxious paper-shufflers in major cities, including the stream of White House aides who have headed for Washington's Globe Book Shop to buy a copy...
Wilcox compares Dunlop with an "old-school labor negotiator, a rough-necked shop foreman." He says of Dunlop's three-year deanship, "He was carrying all the balls--and I guess I mean that two ways--in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and still going down to Washington each week...
...brass plates, are lovingly laid into parish floor and wall. Their lively presences have long been prized by those Americans who, on pilgrimage, spend long hours in drafty naves rubbing the images onto paper.* Now, for would-be brass rubbers, the transatlantic trip is no longer necessary. A unique shop in downtown Boston, the London Brass Rubbing Centre, makes available to plate rubbers meticulous plastic copies of top brasses ranging from a rare depiction of a 17th century child to an armored, gauntleted, 6-ft. knight who served Kings Edward III and Richard...
...ordinary hero, if given the opportunity, can rise to any heights. The secret of his success, and that of this warm, funny, most sincere film is older and more forgotten than any other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind...
...began passing up their cherished minks, muskrats and marmots, settling instead for fake furs-or none at all. Then came the recession, and buyers began to balk at purchasing coats-no matter what they were made of-that had three-and four-figure price tags. Fur sales in specialty shops and department stores across the U.S. plunged, and many firms went out of business altogether. In just two years, nearly half of the 2,000 fur wholesalers and suppliers clustered in Manhattan's garment district, the center of the U.S. fur trade, closed up shop or merged with other...