Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good (Stolichnaya), the few dabs of caviar were superb (from the Volga River) and the guests from the diplomatic corps, Congress, White House and the city at large elbowed each other cheerfully in the chandeliered rooms on the second floor of the elaborate embassy where tsarist Russia set up shop...
Many southern Floridians continue to wage their own war on crime. Nearly two dozen merchants in Miami's downtown shopping district chip in $150 a month to fund nightly patrols of uniformed guards equipped with nightsticks. Citizens are flocking to local gun stores to arm themselves; in the twelve-month period ending Sept. 30, more than 40,000 handguns were sold in Dade County, up from 29,000 in the preceding twelve months. "Most customers are people like your mother," says one gun shop owner. "They're just average, everyday folks who want to continue to live...
Some of those "folks" are flocking to the Tamiami Range and Gun Shop, where Steve Tomlin, 29, teaches a $25 course on how to protect yourself with a gun. Since instruction began last May, more than 500 customers, mostly women, have taken the three-hour course. "I am here to teach you how to kill," says Tomlin to his students. For the first two hours, Tomlin lectures on state firearms laws and how to shoot intruders. Among his tips: use a .38-caliber pistol ("It's the best for getting the job done"); assume all burglars are armed...
Ever since John Travolta mounted a mechanical toro at Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas, suburban cowboys everywhere have been taking the bull by the horns. "It's a macho thing," says Jerry Willrich, manager of Gilley's Bronco Shop, which sells the El Toro machine to bars around the country for big bucks ($7,495). "A guy has to beat that machine and show off for his women." Manhood, however, has been riding for more than a few falls...
...genuine Cartier shop was opened last week to battle the imposter. The fake is the creation of Fernando Pelletier, a Mexican who has 14 "Cartier" boutiques, half of them in the capital, and others in places like Acapulco, Guadalajara and Puebla. They sell such bogus baubles as tank knock-offs assembled with cheap Swiss watch movements. Pelletier once offered to sell his stores to the Paris firm for $4.5 million, but irate Cartier officials decided to pay lawyers instead. The company has won 25 suits against Pelletier, but the copy Cartier remains in business, and still costs the Paris original...