The staggering shift in consumer habits from desktop devices to smartphones and tablets that caught companies like Facebook off-guard was starting to affect smaller online retailers, too.
I could last hours in ethnic supermarkets (and have), but here I darted around for only half an hour, taking note of things I might buy, like lychee fruit bars (four for $4.96), and things that caught me eye, like duck tongues and mung bean starch.
It was her choice of lilac lipstick (maybe a bit corpse-like) that caught flak.
Sitting in a camping chair in a union jack cowboy hat with a brim that caught the rain like a moat, Chris Robertson and his wife, Louise, insisted they were having fun.
Then there were the small blogs, new blogs, things that caught my eye — like This Is Eli, a reporter's blog about her baby son's cystic fibrosis, and Three Under One, about three generations of a Chinese-American family living under one roof.
Yet it is the new development in all of its Jetsons-like splendor that caught his eye.
Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond's edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
Over the years, she has perfected the art of maneuvering into Bangladeshi garment factories piled high with dead young people — factories that caught ablaze or collapsed ("like a human sandwich," she says) due to reckless construction.
A separate but similarly themed special had a hidden-camera segment that caught violators of the rule, like a To Catch a Predator for haircut violations.
The reason An Imagined Museum is such a delightful and thought-provoking show is that it is full of works that catch in memory like a fishbone, in the words of Robert Lowell.
