In the streaklessly clean windows of the dining room there was chaos.

She bought Japanese furniture in 1943 when everyone hated the Japanese. Goldfarb’s furniture store on Pitkin Avenue could hardly give the stuff away. Evelyn had cockamamies—decorative plastic adhesives all over the walls.

2000 May 5, Andy Minter , Rightpondian query, alt.usage.english, Usenet.

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