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...like the flatiron building. He did not want to talk over the telephone, and he did not want me to copy down his real name or the subject of the novel he is writing. He is on unemployment, but admits that he is "bourgeois" or at least "materialistic": the stereo was playing a Brandenburg concerto when I walked in, there was at least one plant hanging off the ceiling, and he began to talk--in the middle of a spotless and sunlit kitchen--after he had begun to drink the first of two glasses of hot cider...
...there is an old saying that when you drop something off a building it always hits a Cadillac," Hall said. "When water spills here it doesn't hit a $20 Sony radio, it hits a $400 stereo...
Winthrop House J-22 - Four major distractions, and a stereo isn't one of them. Barrett's always throwing tantrums and Cadiff around upstairs, Towne's always strumming his guitar, Ballentine's always sharpening his skis and McNabb is just loud, period. Always...
...territory. In particular, Cincinnati headquarters has allowed Bloomingdale's full rein to exploit what it has long seen as its major market: young, affluent, fashion-conscious, traveled, professional people. They are attuned less to refrigerators and washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale's profit, go for such baubles as yogurt makers, $30 peanut-butter-making machines, "male chauvinist pig" neckties (30,000 sold so far) and even "Pet Rocks" that...
John told me that some of the Camp David staff had been whispering that Nixon often stood before the stereo and--all by himself--'conducted' a symphony...