Word: eyeglass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long lines and empty shelves may be common in many other parts of Eastern Europe, but the shop windows of Budapest display everything from stylish eyeglass frames and fur coats to swimming rafts and potted cactus plants. The main market near Váci Street is a colorful cornucopia of scarlet paprika garlands, pigs' heads on hooks, mounds of emerald melons and fish tanks teeming with carp...
...appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting an office affair, Mazzei recommends discretion and closed doors. He suggests that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that he saw nothing. Mazzei warns that sex on business trips is particularly hazardous. "Some...
...great effect in such classics as Tales from the Crypt and the marvelous Dead of Night, is the perfect medium to evoke the atmosphere of horror comics--those brief blurry flashes of primary-colored terror framed by win-great-prizes-selling-junk-door-to-door and x-ray novelty eyeglass...