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For some thoughts on these matters, I'd suggest turning to James B. Twitchell's "Living It Up" 2002, a wry account of the author's own complicated relationship with luxury brands that explores the moral and psychological aspects of our free-spending ways without seeming to be a paternalist rant against the folly of BMWs.

Spend It or Save It? Megan McArdle 2011

Now that we're thoroughly depressed, it's time to slosh out a mug of Belvedere ($28 a bottle) and turn to James B. Twitchell's more sardonic but in an odd way more reassuring Living It Up. A professor at the University of Florida, Twitchell has the decency to be repulsed by America's Hogarthesque orgy of frivolous consumption.

Burgher Deluxe 2003

Now that we're thoroughly depressed, it's time to slosh out a mug of Belvedere ($28 a bottle) and turn to James B. Twitchell's more sardonic but in an odd way more reassuring Living It Up. A professor at the University of Florida, Twitchell has the decency to be repulsed by America's Hogarthesque orgy of frivolous consumption.

Burgher Deluxe 2003

Images of horror are Twitchell's theme in Dreadful Pleasures.

EEK! Schoenbaum, S. 1986

Artificial images of horror — especially those conveyed by Gothic fictions and mass-culture films — are Twitchell's concerns.

EEK! Schoenbaum, S. 1986

Claud Nelson was there after S.J. but she was over at Twitchell's and did not return till dark.

Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957

Emulsin, and (3) Chemical Reagents; Sulphuric Acid, Twitchell's

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

_ -- Among the chief accelerators employed in the hydrolysis of oils are sulphuric acid and Twitchell's reagent

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

The two processes chiefly used for this purpose are those in which the reaction is brought about by enzymes or by Twitchell's reagent.

The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton

Mr. Altinger's remains were cut up, partially burned, put into garbage bags and eventually dumped in a storm drain near the home of Mr. Twitchell's parents.

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