Word: shopped
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...July 1 at the library's Richelieu center in Paris, marks the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth and the 80th of his death. The show offers 350 scenes of a vanished era: quiet courtyards, bustling squares, manicured parks, crumbling cornices and balustrades, placid river barges and enticing shop fronts, as well as strollers, street hawkers and sleeping drunks. Many of the pictures have never been exhibited before, and all but one were printed by the photographer himself. Together they form an impressively confident and distinctive body of work...
...begins Meadows' film, set in Uttoxeter, the heart of Britain's former industrial midlands. It's 1983 and this declining seaside town is fired up on royal weddings and Thatcherism. A brown-skinned local businessman occasionally has to deal with racist slogans spray-painted outside his shop, but it's a world away from the violent anti-immigrant demonstrations taking place elsewhere in the country...
...city stops growing, of course, unless it runs out of money or relevance-and Shanghai boasts plenty of both. But each time I return, my favorite place in China seems less itself. Many residents, too, look disoriented: Wasn't a noodle shop here just a week ago, or a tailor's atelier there, or a row of lane houses just around the corner...
Last week marked another sad milestone in the history of Harvard Square, as yet another independently owned business shuttered its doors. The latest casualty is the Greenhouse Restaurant and Coffee Shop, which has stood at the nexus of Harvard square for 30 years. The Greenhouse’s closing is but the latest reminder of the trend of locally owned businesses shutting down, and being supplanted by private chains—the most recent examples being Qdoba and the International House of Pancakes. While many have expressed concerns that Harvard Square is losing its tradition of supporting locally owned establishments...
...women solicited friends and colleagues for recommendations of places to shop in New York...