Sentences with phrase «conditioned knickknack»

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Music and air conditioning were blasting from nearby sportswear stores while what seemed like the widest patch of pavement in all of New York was heaving with tables of tourist trinkets, African knickknacks, incense and perfume oils, shea butter, hawked cartons of Newports, copies of the Final Call («unbought and uncompromised»), advertisements promising no - fault divorces for women seeking a swift and painless end to their marriages, and smart - alecky street vendors who, year after year, summer after summer, invariably cross my path and say, «Hey baby, are you Italian or Jewish?»