Word: vendor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Goldfinger first started working as a vendor for Spare Change, a newspaper run entirely by members of the homeless community...
...People were taking things for personal use," says vendor and finance committee member Horace Reid. "It took us a while to get things in order...
...worked with no salary. Gradually we were able to bring other people in," says Goldfinger, who joined the paper as a vendor two years ago. "It was a month by month thing...
...provoked by a reading of Sleepers. Internal contradictions pile up. "We followed every pro sport with religious fervor and adolescent passion," Carcaterra writes on one page. On the next: "We cared little for Knicks basketball and barely tolerated Giants football." The author writes emotionally of a Greek hot-dog vendor he and his friends robbed: "We never saw the tiny, airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress of his bed. We never...
That is an awful lot of information about a room Carcaterra never saw. How did he obtain it? Well, the author says, details about the vendor were invented. "Is he Greek? Maybe. Is he Hispanic? Could be, whatever." No. "Whatever" won't do as the ruling principle of a book that purports to tell the truth...