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...Minuteman Record and Tape (30 Boylston St.) has a good selection at pretty good prices, with the added bonus that they have tape cassettes and whatnot...
About J. Press (82 Mt. Auburn St.) and Saks 5th Ave. (73 Mt. Auburn St.) I need say nothing. If you intend to shop there, you probably know all about prices and whatnot. In fact, you probably aren't reading this article...
...Victorian parlor was complete without its whatnot crammed with porcelain curios and bric-a-brac. Potters of that day found an endless market for glossy, sentimental figures of puppies, kittens, grazing sheep and cows (sometimes used as milk pitchers). Today the ceramic gimcrack is coming back, this time destined as much for museums as for the coffee table, and in a radically different form. The current crop of gewgaws is more likely to be an eight-foot alligator, a toothbrush, or a bathroom scale with a few human toes still left in place...
...driveway stand two castoff Cadillacs from Cassius, "His" and "Hers." Odessa still tries to keep a semblance of cool around the house, while Old Cassius tromps around thinking up ideas for commercial schemes-food endorsements, perhaps a nationwide chain of "Clay's Kitchens" or "Clay's Whatnot Shops...
...cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly close to utter babble, according to reports. In these volumes Hasan's dictation is augmented with a "fold-in" technique: pages of the first draft (or of a newspaper, Shakespeare, or whatnot) are taken at random, folded in half lengthwise, and stuck together. This juxtaposition of fragments, says Burroughs, produces a continuous interweaving of flashbacks and flashforwards...