Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calvin's underground house is a wonder itself, with a huge fishpond, fake outdoors patio and early 60s kitsch. Plus, it boasts a stockroom so big that the mother can still push around a shopping cart. Buildings seem to be catchy way to describe the changing times. Spacek bakes pot roasts in a peaceful, tidy home. Above, Mom's Malt Shop sprouts up in place of the Webbers' old house and gradually devolves into a filthy hangout for druggies...
...easy, lovable stuff: Impressionism, and specifically Renoir. But rather than dive in at the deep end of the art market on his own--a certain prelude to drowning--Wynn found himself a guide in William Acquavella, 60, a closemouthed and formidably well-connected New York private dealer whose stockroom is one of the best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background...
Officials of Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), which took over the sourcebook stockroom this summer from the Science Center management, say the lines have not been longer and claim the forms are necessary to comply with copyright law. According to HPPS Director James Gill, HPPS did extend its hours and hire five temporary employees to accommodate the rush...
...fair, HPPS has made several improvements: the hours of the stockroom were sufficiently student-friendly; we no longer have to trek to HPPS' old location at 1730 Cambridge St. to purchase any course materials; students can now pay for sourcebooks by MasterCard or Visa; and HPPS provides students copies at 5 cents a piece and easy and relatively inexpensive access to a fax machine...
...basement stockroom has now moved beyond sourcebooks. In conjunction with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), HPPS now hosts a printing and copying center in the Science Center basement where students can purchase a range of services, from stapling to double-sided copying, over the FAS computer network...