Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Korean American Coalition [July 11] complained that TIME'S report on Los Angeles, the new melting pot, was unfair to recent Korean immigrants. Perhaps Hyun should check into the practices of some Koreatown merchants. I lived and worked in that area for 20 years and continued to shop at the neighborhood market after it was bought by Koreans. One day I tried to pay for my groceries with a check...
...formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen by Kawakubo for both its lilt and its casual defiance of traditional gender stereotypes) resemble items from a thrift shop at the far corner of Macbeth's blasted heath. Nonetheless, they have an ease that confounds traditional expectations of elegance...
...entirely separate. Nor was Chinese the only foreign element. Portuguese missionaries later introduced pan (bread), and Dutch traders biiru (beer). Then came the tidal wave of English. Some of these Japanized words filled a practical need (takushi, taxi, or rajio, radio), while some were primarily fashionable (kohi-shoppu, coffee shop...
Private arms dealers like Hashemi and De Mello account for much of the sales to Iran. At Iran's insistence, Hashemi set up various business entities to try to conceal his U.S. connections: his R.R.C. Co. in Stamford with its rug-shop front; a subsidiary in London; a separate company, Zoomer Fly Ltd., also in London. Hashemi's brother Cyrus, who was president of the now-defunct First Gulf Bank & Trust, helped finance the Zoomer Fly operation...
...American no longer has the image of a spender who throws away money," says Athens American Express General Manager George Efthyvoulidis. "He expects something in return." That lesson is apparent at least to Johannes Brenner, who owns a popular souvenir shop behind the Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich. "In former years," he confesses, "Americans were the main customers for those porcelain monsters-the huge vases and ornate groups and centerpieces, laced figurines and gilded plates. Now we sell those to the Near East. Americans know too well what Rosenthal, Meissen and Nymphenburg should look like. We still sell...