Word: malle
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...playing chess, talking politics or just shopping--is a minute you're not spending off-line. And it is off-line, in the real world, where we find a precious social resource, people we have little in common with. The supermarket checkout lady, the librarian, the shoppers at the mall--all are handy reminders of the larger community we're part of--multicultural, socioeconomically diverse yet bound by a common nature...
...Cambridge of the little guy. Not that Baskin-Robbins is exactly the Little Shoppe Around the Corner, but as an independent franchise operation that's been here for thirty years. It will do for the purposes of this argument. Do you really want Cambridge to turn into the Mall of America II? Do you really want to see the birth of the Bow Street Baby Gap? I didn't think...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer discovered a group on the Science Center mall handing out literature and brochures. The group was asked to move on. After packing up their things, they left...
...peddles clothes, but Abercrombie & Fitch sells a technicolor teen lifestyle--one of the reasons it is the brand of the moment. At A&F headquarters near Columbus, Ohio, retailing has become akin to moviemaking. The theme is popularity, and it's packaged, marketed and playing at a mall near you. Every flannel and fleece pullover is choreographed to present the appearance of effortless cool. Yes, the tag on the $59.90 paratroop pants proclaims that they've been TESTED, but that's a prop, part of the romantic retail fantasy. "You buy into the emotional experience of a movie," says...
These auteurs are so confident, they show up even when their work is rejected from the official festival. They stand on the town's main thoroughfare pestering passersby to see their films. They rent out mall storefronts for showings. I saw one director projecting his movie onto a snowy hillside. Another was sneaking a tiny TV into parties and showing his trailer under his trench coat--which, as it turned out, was actually a more unsettling experience than if he had just been naked. There was a director with a sign reading WILL WORK FOR DISTRIBUTION. And in a move...