Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office left a message with one of her professors that his class would be moved, with no explanation. The class, which meets in the Geological lecture rooms, was not moved, and in order to get there each day, she must go through Tazzer library, the Peabody Museum, the museum shop and then wait for an attendant to unlock the fire door, which often causes her to be late...
...girls who are modeling Armani's fashions look as if they had raided a thrift shop and come out with clothing that wasn't in their size. Since my words will carry little weight, I'll turn to Dorothy Parker, who summed it up rather nicely in her short story Just a Little One: "You mean those clothes of hers are intentional? My heavens, I always thought she was on her way out of a burning building...
...holding might include such items as The Journals of Captain Cook ($200), Kipling's Kim ($80) and Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director ($2,500). Clive Farahar, one of Edwards' aggressive associate directors, encourages investors to leave their books at the shop, where other buyers may offer higher prices for them. Still, he says, "many will want to peruse their books before a fire, wearing bedroom slippers and sipping a glass of whisky...
After classes, we were free. Free to visit museums, to go to concerts and movies, to try to sweet-talk the lady at the Intourist theater ticket office, or to visit friends and new acquaintances. But sooner or later we had to be free to shop for food...
...mechanics of social rituals and hierarchies, and the best of Hometown uncovers a city only an insider could know. He tells of a widely believed rumor linking the handsome, popular WASP mayor to the socially prominent wife of a close Jewish friend; the "social marketplace" of Hamilton, a beauty shop frequented by women of diverse backgrounds; and, finally in the book's dramatic conclusion, the trial of a popular music teacher for masturbating in a department store bathroom...