Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body of work. From 800 meters to 10,000, she has broken seven world records and essentially every American mark indoors, outdoors or on the highway. But Decker runs so hard, she powders her bones. Her shins, ankles and feet have been in and out of the shop since Little Mary was twelve, when she ran a marathon one day and a 440 and 880 the next. "From the knees up, she's world class," says her coach, Dick Brown. "Although her knees and lungs and heart and mind want to go 80 miles a week, her calves...
Deals, deals, deals. Studio people still "give good phone" here, still "take a meeting." On San Vicente Boulevard there is a shop called A Definite Maybe Boutique. That is studio talk. A producer and scriptwriter who has had some success calls it "the coldest town in the country, run by some of the dumbest rich men in the world." He stays, he says, "for the money, obviously." Screenwriters have always bitched; this cliché is true. And yet there are certain circles in which it seems that everyone is writing a screenplay. One Eastern writer who is accustomed to working...
Geraldine Ferraro has made her way in this male preserve by being both feminine and feminist. Her hair is frosted blond, she wears stockings and makeup, and she loves to shop. When she needs to, she can flirt. But she is also tough and resilient, a shrewd back-room operator. She is, says fellow New York Congressman Joseph Addabbo, the paunchy, balding Chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, "just one of the guys...
...Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead...
...their remaining years together, just as they had always expected. She finds the infidelity hard to bear, but not as shattering as her husband's lethargic confession that he has renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides to commit suicide...