Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer following my sophomore year, I worked part-time at the C'est Bon on Mass. Ave. The store's customers included throngs of tourists, a magician who turned $1 bills into twenties and proceeded to pay me with them, a 70-ish year-old man in a green beret and combat boots who liked to bring me stuffed animals and, most significantly, some of the thousand or so students attending Harvard Summer School. High-schoolers freed of parental restrictions for the summer, carrying light academic loads relative to the average undergraduate, they were an image of the carefree college...
...might have solved the problem, but that's not the point. There is absolutely no reason to walk into any store and assume that the person behind the counter is an idiot. Chances are you're wrong and all that you do in presuming otherwise is reveal your own arrogance...
...guess that iron bikini in Return of the Jedi was a little much.) Luke (Mark Hamill) works on comic books. He can also currently be seen in a series of commercials for Big Bear, the supermarket chain. (He uses the Force to move his shopping bags out of the store. Hmm.) And Han Solo (Harrison Ford)? Um, he's movie star. And Star Wars was the movie that...
Though Egyptian billionaire MOHAMED AL-FAYED failed to win British citizenship (again) this month, it hasn't impeded his plans to spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come...
Outside a Tower Records store in Manhattan, a chorus of screams is going up. Mostly sopranos, a few altos, no tenors and certainly no basses. "Riiiiiickyyyyyyyyyyyy! I love you!" The crowd of 5,000, mainly young women between the ages of Dawson's Creek and Felicity (with a few Rugrats and Ally McBeals mixed in), have gathered to catch a glimpse of the latest heartthrob, their corazon. The fans at the front of the line enter the store and stumble out with a signature scrawled across a CD or on a poster or even on their skin. Some leave crying...