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...store's buyer travels to countries asdiverse as India, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, thePhillipines and China, as well as to a number ofAfrican nations. The buyer's finds--whose pricesstart at around 50 cents--are made of glass,porcelain, gold, silver, wood, plastic andsemi-precious stones in every imaginable shade andcolor...
Take Nick's Beef and Beer Haus, remove the log appointments from the wall-mounted red flame lamps, add orange vinyl-backed chairs, two dozen round fake-wood tables and a whole mess of American flags and voila--you have the scene for the September 21 Clinton/Gore campaign organizing meeting in Cambridge...
...moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...
...change in the order of things, and it is appeased by the vision of a new order . . . The fate of an object in which we had no interest suddenly begins to disturb us." Turned balusters, game pieces, the little round horse bells known as grelots, cut-out paper doilies, wood paneling, views through a window, fire, a birdcage, a rifle, a tuba, a pipe, loaves of bread, a naked woman: there wasn't much in Magritte's repertoire of images that couldn't have been seen by an ordinary Belgian clerk in the course of an ordinary...
What do environmentalists suggest? They're no "radicals" or "extremists," as their opponents insist. Says one ranger in Olympic National Park: "You still need some wood, but some of us support more selective cutting...