Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack's Joke Shop, "America's Oldest Active Joke Shop Since 1922," April Fools' Day is a year-round event. This family-run novelty store keeps its patrons laughing with over 3, 100 magic tricks, gags, disguises and costumes in stock. If it's spooky, funny or just plain strange, Jack's Joke Shop can fill the order...
...joke shop doesn't sound like a likely place to find the perfect birthday gift, but Jack's makes present shopping surprisingly easy. Gag gifts include award ribbons proclaiming "1st Prize for Being Young and Horny," "World Champion Stud," and "Part-Time Alcoholic." A collection of "over the hill" merchandise for every age and personality type awaits the insensitive shopper...
Clearly, change comes slowly to the Harvard Faculty Club, a monument to the Ivory Tower where long-time professors and administrators gather to drink sherry and talk shop in green velvet armchairs. Little seems to have changed since the Club was built...
...Simpson is reading my mind when she says, "The club feels very different from the rest of New York...you can sit and read the newspaper...and you don't feel like you're taking up someone else's table in a coffee shop." The place has been meticulously designed to feel like a luxurious embellishment of Harvard, and it works: I have the bizarre urge to plop myself down in one of the comfortable chairs and read Moby Dick from cover to cover...
Still, there's something not quite right as we make our way from the club bar to the barber shop to the floor of conference rooms: A staggeringly high percentage of the clientele are white men over thirty-five--80 percent is a very conservative estimate. And sure enough, without my prodding, Ms. Simpson acknowledges the imbalance. She reminds me that I've come after the peak lunch hour, and so those still in the club are mainly retirees, a group which is inevitably going to be dominated by Harvard's old guard...