Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is not what I really want. It is still exciting to find the perfect sweater at a vintage store in the dollar box. It's more satisfying to find a fabulous cheap restaurant than be a hipster at the latest over-priced hot spot. It's nice to cook, boil water and make pasta sauce. I don't want to slide down the slippery slope. I don't want to be the proper Harvard graduate and get the right kind of job and eat at the right restaurants and drink the right vodka and have the right brand...
...fact of modern American life: shopping for cosmetics, like wading through certain Don DeLillo novels or trying to make sense of the plotlines for Melrose Place, is not an easy undertaking. Step onto the mazelike cosmetics floor of almost any department store and you are likely to be assaulted by salesclerks--some spritz-happy, some too eager to confront you about your shiny forehead. Chances are the beauty product you're looking for is under glass, off limits to mere customers. According to at least one market-research survey on the way cosmetics are presented and pitched in stores...
...most of it does happen. When Dil's constant screams and crying grow to be too much for the original Rugrats, Phil and Lil, always brutally practical, suggest they take Dil back to "the baby store" for a refund. After all, they reason, why keep a "broked" baby when they can get a new one that works better? Despite his misgivings, Tommy must go along for the ride to care for his younger brother as Chuckie and the twins take Dil back to the hospital in the Reptar Wagon, a crazy contraption built by Stu in his toy workshop...
...rappers signed autographs inside the store for almost four hours while hundreds of fans staked out the tour bus parked on Dunster Street, waiting to catch a glimpse of the stars...
Sargent Richard Gardner of the Cambridge Police Department estimated more than 3,000 fans passed through the store...