Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fingernail maintenance seems to fill the hours women once devoted to straightening stocking seams and rolling pin curls. The ladies' room crowd admires a tourist, the owner of a nail shop in California, who reveals a gold nail set with diamonds on her left ring finger...
Change is also sweeping the aisles of Sears' 806 retail stores in all 50 states, where some 39 million American families shop. Under Chairman and Chief Executive Edward R. Telling, Sears* boss since 1978, the company has launched a $1.7 billion capital-improvement program to build 62 new stores, remodel 600 others and update the company's whole approach to selling. By October, Sears will have 107 "stores of the future," which will depart sharply from its traditional selling places. They have a friendlier, more welcoming look than the Sears stores of old, with more aisles, lower ceilings...
...family has bought nearly all its important goods at Sears, from a new roof to a garage-door opener to countless appliances, clothes and Cabbage Patch dolls. Says Lola Martin, Don's wife: "It's always been there, and it will always be there. When we shop at Sears, we say, 'We're going to Sears.' When we go somewhere else, it's just a store...
...painter spying on people looking at art -is extreme; and so is the feeling for material substance, quiet, glowing, meticulously wrought. On the far left, a portrait of Louis XIV is being lowered into its crate for shipment. This refers to the name of Gersaint's shop, Au Grand Monarque, but also to the death and burial of the Sun King himself. The shop sign is at once an elegy, a work of art criticism (for no painting on the walls is there by accident) and an inspired essay of social observation. It begins what Watteau would have done...
...younger customers are going in for heavy costuming, theatrical makeup and thrift-shop freak, their elders seem to be in the mood to dress rich. "The sense of community and liberalism that blue jeans symbolized is no longer in fashion," observes Novelist Alison Lurie, author of a deft study of fashion, The Language of Clothes. "In the blue jeans and T shirt costume, you couldn't tell a millionaire from an auto mechanic. Jeans identified you with an entire generation, not a particular group, race, nationality or sex. But the rich don't want to blend in with...