Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selfish and old-fashioned, like some decaying actress caught backstage. Her argument in the recent Harper's runs smoothly enough: Libraries have gone over to entertainment, peddling videos and Internet access in the hopes of enticing people to use the library. This kind of instrumental programming, such as handicraft classes, social work and lectures, has always failed in the past and will continue to do so. Libraries should stick to what they are best at--silence and preserving the telling detail or odd fact...
...revamped Holyoke shopping area is bright, flashy, and modern. Its "Forbes Arcade" is full of specialty booths and tiny stores, most of which hawk accessories and gift items--a kite shop, an ethnic handicraft "kiosk," a booth devoted exclusively to the sale of pepper. Holyoke Center is now a piece of an ongoing trend: the mall-ification of Harvard Square...
Sadly, Cuban cigars fell victim over the years to socialist mismanagement. The island's wrapping handicraft declined, and its tobacco fields produced inferior leaf because they were no longer properly fertilized or allowed sufficient time to lay fallow. So uneven is the yield that two years ago, Switzerland's Davidoff company, which profited handsomely for decades from Fidel Castro's crop, pulled up its Cuban stakes...