Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June. Cried one anguished woman: "Never in season can one find the clothes one needs. Bathing suits in July -never! Winter cocktail clothes after Christmas-never! You lose valuable trade because you do not cater to people when they need things." For this, manufacturers last week blamed the department stores: "The store buyer doesn't think ahead. If it's a cold spring, she gets panicky, concentrates on getting rid of what she had, and won't reorder fresh stock early." The stores blamed manufacturers: "Try to reorder anything in May. The manufacturers don't think...
...slacks that are too slack in the rear," sheath skirts "that make it so awkward to get in or out of taxis," dresses with petticoats that wilt after the first washing, the "no-ironing" synthetic fabrics that do need ironing, white collars and cuffs that are not detachable, the store that advertises a dress on Sunday and is "out of it" on Monday...
Rififi (UMPO) contains a 30-minute stretch of wordless moviemaking that is one of the most engrossing sequences since the invention of talking pictures. A band of four international thieves plans the burglary of a Parisian jewelry store. They carefully case the shop, study the routine of the night watchman and other inhabitants of the block, buy an identical burglary alarm and painstakingly devise the best means of silencing...
...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...
...state so as to provide more access to the fine arts? He learns about chemistry by analyzing "patent medicines or radio-advertised foods to test the reliability of commercial claims." As for arithmetic, "a whole unit . . . could be planned around a consumer cooperative or even around running a school store on cooperative principles...