Word: shop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Declaring that the store looked "like a bowling alley," Stutz started an expensive renovation. The result, she boasts: "The beginning of boutiques." Rows of tiny shops, scarcely bigger than Victorian dressing cupboards, were set up on the main floor. The street of shops became Bendel's fame and still provides one-third of the earnings of the whole store. The basic design has not changed in 21 years. "I keep thinking that one day it will look old-fashioned and passe," says Stutz, "but it doesn't." Customers there receive close but not suffocating attention from modish salespeople...
...work for E.F. Hutton, writing a daily market letter. He also published A Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit, a handbook that is still highly regarded by Wall Streeters. After E.F. Hutton began heavily editing his letters, Granville decided in 1963 to set up his own shop. His publishing company now grosses $5 million a year...
...Shop," a Government agency behind the experiments, sorely wants to eliminate Vicky and Andy, the only survivors with extrasensory powers (nine other drug volunteers have died, committed suicide or gone mad). Most of all, the agency wants to capture pretty
Charlie, who could be of greater strategic value than the neutron bomb. After torturing and killing Vicky, the Shop kidnaps Charlie, who is rescued by her father's "push." Thereafter, and for most of the book, Andy and Charlie flee through the Northeast, pursued by a brutal bunch of Shopworkers who anticipate the fugitives' every move. While Andy's psychic powers fade, Charlie's grow ever more explosive- and repulsive...
Inevitably, many of their would-be captors get flash-fried by Charlie, whom her father calls "one great big Zippo lighter." They are imprisoned for six excruciating months while the agency tries to plumb their powers. Equally inevitably, there is ultimately a vast and glorious incineration at the Shop...