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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shoppers interviewed Saturday agreed that Crate & Barrel and Urban Outfitters were the busiest stores in the Square...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Square Shops, Customers Feel Holiday Crunch | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...love working under stress, there's so much to do," said Eric W. Underwood, an Urban Outfitters employee. "Every-one is generally nice and polite, but some do get out of hand and have an attitude...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Square Shops, Customers Feel Holiday Crunch | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Bisgeier also displayed vehement hostility tothe grunge music playing in Urban Outfitters--"Ihate grunge," she said--but she still felt theholiday spirit. "There's a warm feeling in theair," she said. "It definitely feels likeChristmas...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Square Shops, Customers Feel Holiday Crunch | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...more casual clothing but equal bitterness between haves and have- nots. For that matter, there's nothing in the essence of Dickens' story to preclude glimpses of fast-food workers and airline pilots, or riffs of rap and gospel music, and it's reasonable enough to have an urban American Tiny Tim (T.T. to his kin) be a victim of a random shooting instead of a mysterious wasting disease. If the ghost of Christmas present dresses like Santa and quotes Diet Pepsi commercials, that doesn't keep him from making the eternal case for charity. If the ghost of Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Rap on Scrooge | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...Rauch, who directed and co-wrote: "We started years ago in places where the barriers were geographic. In cities some communities can be just as isolated because of other factors. We could tell Anacostia was responding because 270 people, by far a record for us, showed up for auditions. Urban work seems to be our future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting a Rap on Scrooge | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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