Word: stores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed shopkeepers to stay open on the four Sundays before Christmas. Officials made little effort to enforce Sunday closings even where the law requires them. In Baltimore, some retailers stayed open the Sunday before Christmas, defying the Maryland legislature, which had considered and rejected Sunday openings. One store was fined $100 and the others got away with mere warnings...
...fulfilling prophecy of sorts. Many storekeepers, bitterly recalling the stockpiles they got stuck with after the recession Christmas of three years ago, bought only enough this year to cover the sales gains they expected and got. Their shelves are now cleaned off, and will have to be restocked. So store orders to manufacturers for more merchandise could give the whole economy a lift during the first quarter and well into spring...
Physiologists Henry Buchtel and Giovanni Berlucchi recall that a question asked in a classic 1950 history of experimental psychology-"Where or how does the brain store its memories? That is the great mystery"-is still unanswered a quarter of a century later. Psychologist Wilse Webb cheerfully admits that after years of research on sleep, he still does not understand its purpose...
Furniture," observes Zakas, "is thought of as a very complicated thing. It really isn't. A chair should have a seat and a back, a table a top and a base. Those are very simple elements to put together to sit on, eat at or store in." This kind of fun, and indeed new departures in design, has been made possible by a marriage of technology and sprightly aesthetics. Explains Zakas: "Probably the biggest single element has been the development of urethane foam. Before foam, you had to have springs, and they are a real hassle." The new supergrip...
Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...