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Until the emergence of mass retail, the wholesaler-jobber dominated the distribution of consumer dry goods to general stores: clothing, upholstered furnishings, hardware, drugs, tobacco, furniture, china, and glassware.
The magnificent interior, one of the finest examples of Georgian church architecture in North America, has lavishly upholstered pews — especially the governor’s — gilt crown and miters on the organ case, the oldest pulpit in the nation, and a bell cast by Paul Revere that was tolled at his death.
One complaint: Dearborn "prefers to get Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story" instead of exploring the meanings behind them, and she "likes to knock the stuffing out of [Mailer] when she finds him too upholstered" (Caleb Crain, the New York Times Book Review ). (The New York Times ' "featured author" section on Mailer offers an archive of reviews and profiles from the paper.)
The reader realizes instantly that a deserting soldier would never think like this--that he would never use these upholstered words.
One curious example by Junya Watanabe is a flat shoe draped and upholstered in rose and gold brocade, so that each foot becomes a rich little shoe-shaped cushion at the nethermost point of the body.
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