Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of cocaine. Sepe ordered him to teach art to mentally retarded children at Miami's Hope School. To Garrett, the experience was the most rewarding of his life; he now is part of the school's paid staff. Carl Dachton had a similar experience. A gun-shop owner held in contempt for temporarily returning a customer's guns in violation of a court order, he was required to take five white, five black and five Cuban boys on trips to the Everglades "to teach them to know and love the outdoors as you do." Delighted with...
...Manhattan insurance executive named Muhlbach is scouting a rival's New Mexico operations. His object is corporate merger, but Muhlbach finds his own independence endangered. In a Taos curio shop, he is transfixed by a terra cotta nobleman. His soft, Prufrockian sensibility struggles briefly to understand the figurine's power. "Does he remind me of myself?" Muhlbach wonders incongruously. No matter. He pays $30 for it and takes the piece to an expert in Albuquerque. The verdict is quick: authentic Mayan, a dark survivor from pre-Columbian burial rites. By the time his plane touches down...
...Press, Casablanca, the Tennis and Squash Shop and a few other heavies cater to the particular desires of the sons and daughters of the ruling class. They do very well...
...their stories of the past week. A trial period for a new man in office is only fair, of course--he must be allowed time to prove himself. Thus, in a now-famous 1968 cartoon for The Washington Post, Herblock captioned an empty barbershop chair, "Everyone who enters this shop receives a clean shave," signaling the suspension of a long-held grudge against incoming President Richard Nixon...
...Nikons flash at the cover. A fellow in whitened jeans and a workshirt quietly offers $200--the stipulated minimum bid. There are no other takers; it's his. "I had nothing better to spend it on," says Peter Kunkel, who earned the money working in an Indiana bicycle shop. "Ever since my babysitter took me to one of their first concerts, I've been collecting Beatle stuff...