parlor
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The fatherly proprietor of a Times Square ping-pong parlor where Marty trains?
There she ran a tattoo parlor that locals said stayed open late in the evening, Russian state media reported.
Noticing patterns, he placed his first stock trade the following year in a bucket shop—more a gambling parlor than a brokerage.
But unlike many aspects of AI that are truly transformational, the humanoid fascination will ultimately prove to be a parlor trick with few practical applications.
The fact that it was a parlor game, not pointillism, that inspired the lyric is proof of Sondheim’s credo that “playful doesn’t mean trivial any more than solemn means serious.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.