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...clean, refined boutique on the trendiest street in the city, modern track lights illuminate brilliant white walls and the expensive hand-embroidered shirts which hang there. Salespeople serve as fashion consultants, hovering near dressing rooms, offering advice on how to coordinate outfits. Their customers admire themselves in full-length mirrors, examining the cut and style of a vintage piece. An earth-toned flannel shirt and matching hunting jacket are prominently displayed together as one of the many luscious combinations to be assembled from the racks. Pearly costume jewelry is carefully arranged in a long glass cabinet. Whenever the front door...
...clothes. You can sit in the midst of them; big through them, tossing them over your back; or just wade through the stew of fabric until something catches your eye. Other customers are bent over the musty piles, searching, holding sweaters or blouses at arm's length, occasionally pausing to try one on. There are no dressing rooms, just a couple of mirrors propped up against bare walls. When you have finished your scavenging, you haul your sack to the door, where the man weighs your bulging load. One dollar per pound. The man makes change from a roll...
Jewett said no final decision has been made on the length of Symonds's appointment...
...been kept at arms-length colonialstatus," Marquina said. "Why haven't weconsummated the relationship, to put it in easierterms? We've been going out for the past 95years...
What does the above quote describe? A fine Chardonnay, gourmet preserves, perhaps the new flavors of Skittles? No, this gushing adulation can be found in the Summer 1993 issue of The Coffee Connection News, in praise of a coffee known as "Dota Blend." The News goes on at great length about "fruitiness," "body" and "character" of various blends of beans assembled from assorted poverty-stricken Third World nations for our gustatory pleasure...