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...been said that totalitarianism is dead when a shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
Editors assigned the project to Colton and three other underage summer interns, who were instructed to obtain fake IDs from "storefront operations" in order to purchase alcohol, according to Alfred S. Larkin Jr., The Globe's managing editor for administration...
...poor neighborhoods residents can wind up paying even higher fees for financial service because of the shortage of bank branches. The lack of accessibility has forced many inner-city dwellers to turn to storefront check- cashing offices, which can charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than...
...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...first Feldman says the shop was a small storefront in Somerville with no retail operation and no tables and chairs, but as the cakes became more popular he decided to expand the business and move to Cambridge...