Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RICH CHILDREN, on the other hand, provide a crystal-clear window into their parents' minds, and Coles is on familiar ground in presenting their lives. As a reviewer, I am perhaps prejudiced by my own first-hand knowledge of how the rich live. Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the descriptions of homes as "dramatic and secluded; old, historic and architecturally interesting; large with good grounds; private and palatial..." conjure up scenes that I have come into contact with. And while I have not lived inside these homes of the very rich, I know how parents with money have worked...
When you're writing a thesis, you become a mindless shut-in, a recluse, a pariah. Your only contact with the outside world is whatever wafts in on the breeze through the sixth-floor windows in Mather House (last week, that meant 30 inches of snow, and I had quite a cleanup problem) and, needless to say, the radio. Well I've now closed my window until the winter is officially over, and I've given up on the radio. (Last night, WBCN, the one station you're still supposed to think is OK around here, devoted an entire hour...
...movement has worked through volunteer meetings that were "nearly always opened with a prayer and a salute to the flag," he said. But after the prayer and salute the farmers often discussed tactics involving violence--vandalism and window-breaking. These measures were considered, the Texan explained, "Because, you know, you have to break the law to be noticed...
...Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain, Pierre Deux and Lothars of Paris. Others are of questionable vintage: Giorgio, Mr. Guy, even a Jerry Magnin store that has the temerity to put sale soccer shoes in its window. In all, 60 stores along 2˝ blocks of Rodeo Drive rang up sales of $200 million last year...
...come up with anything from a survey. While The Hite Report, however, was a national best-seller, found in all the bookstores across the nation, Beyond the Male Myth has been downwright hard to find. But the one book which seems to be all over, in every store window, is The Joy of Lesbian Sex. What sells, is sold...