Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this store's 300-plus-page "A&F Quarterly," the magazine they try to pass off as a catalogue, there are perhaps four pages which feature people of color. One depicts the "hip hop hussy," Lil' Kim, who makes "Clinton's dirty talk look like Teletubby kiddy-babble." She's not exactly my pick of the month for black entertainers. The other three pages featuring people of color are included in a sociology section entitled "Where the Wild Things...
...discounts offered by online booksellers have hurt the Coop, but the store has stepped up its efforts to shorten checkout lines and to procure more used books, Coop General Manager David Sullivan said in April...
...that there are invisible psychological obstacles to moving outside your circle, that social mobility is hardly frictionless. When school brain Lindsay Weir on Freaks, for instance, mixes with a crowd of rebels, she is dallying with kids who, as one puts it, "shoplift in [her] daddy's store." Roswell, likewise, explores nature-vs.-nurture questions through its teen aliens--two were adopted by a well-off family; the other grew up poorer in unloving foster homes--though Katims is cautious not to come off as issue oriented: "If you have a message," he says, "send a telegram...
...Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy. Before this--except for "an hour or two a week" of what Purdy archaically calls "arithmetic"--his lessons came from random, heavy reading. He devoured everything from Hardy Boys mysteries to chunky tomes on European history. "We made pretty serious raids on thrift-store book supplies," he says. After a brief, unfulfilling interlude in the local public school, Purdy headed up to Exeter, where he both found himself intellectually and met the cultural enemy: prep school irony...
...many of the information sources you refer to--brochures, newspapers and dictionaries--are still on paper. To help convert the printed word into digital form for reports or homework, C Technologies and Siemens have developed digital highlighters. Simply swipe them across a line of text, and they will store data for transfer to your PC, via infrared or serial port. Both Siemens' PocketReader and C Technologies' C Pen 200 cost $200. FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE Step into the lush, futuristic world of Final Fantasy VIII, the latest installment of the blockbuster PlayStation series that has sold some 22 million copies...