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  • Along the way, Chuck bakes antidepressants into pies for her eccentric aunts, who believe she's dead; a woman is killed by a scratch-and-sniff book; and a rival candy-store owner, desperately afraid of birds, is out to sabotage the pieman.

    Replanting ABC's 'Pushing Daisies': Will it bloom or wilt? 2008

  • After learning Betsy Ann Chocolates, a Pittsburgh-based candy-store chain, was closing most of its outlets, Macy's began carrying the chocolate in its Pittsburgh-area stores.

    Macy's Pursues Customers of Fallen Rivals 2009

  • I have a novella coming out from Ellora's Cave about a candy-store owner and, yes, an orthodontist and I had a ball pun not intended, no, wait, pun intended writing it.

    Reading and Writing Erotica as a Feminist Act Victoria Janssen 2009

  • A minor point, we suppose, but it certainly stops the candy-store buying approach we're used to with iPhone applications and music.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2009

  • And he cultivated controversy with his essay “The White Negro,” published in Dissent, which seemed to suggest that murdering a defenseless candy-store owner could be seen as a courageous act.

    Mailer's Movie Madness Bosworth, Patricia 2008

  • Best known for his orderly depictions of candy-store goods, Wayne Thiebaud also painted several San Francisco cityscapes, including "Cat and Traffic."

    Phillips de Pury: Contemporary Art 2008

  • Best known for his orderly depictions of candy-store goods, Wayne Thiebaud also painted several San Francisco cityscapes.

    Opening Night 2008

  • The 50/50 plan allows staff PJs to have a candy-store shopping spree.

    Self reliant 2005

  • Having that item makes the list look like it was made by kids at the counter in a candy-store.

    SWI's Declaration of Virtual World Policy 2007

  • The 50/50 plan allows staff PJs to have a candy-store shopping spree.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

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