Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sister Luc-Gabrielle is 30, blue-eyed, friendly and full of common sense. She is an odd competitor for the Bobby Darins and the Paul Ankas, as anyone would agree who could see her in her heavy shoes and grey apron with a big knife cleaning sugar beets on the convent farm. "She's wonderfully well adapted to Dominican life," says a fellow sister who acts as her manager. "She's very joyful, and holy joy is the principal trait St. Dominic wanted to infuse in his order...
...paper that purported to list the officials and their peccadilloes. (The French editor did not reply to Denning's request.) The judge found "a great deal of evidence" about fashionable parties at which "the man who serves the dinner is nearly naked except for a small square lace apron round his waist" and a black mask over his head so he "cannot be recognized." The dinner, it appears, is "followed by perverted sex orgies; the guests undress and engage in sexual intercourse one with the other, and indulge in other sexual activities of a vile and revolting nature...
...tall with a toothbrush mustache, the ascetic Schuman was a natural for the finance commission, where he served for 17 years. He ate cheap meals, prowled his offices snapping off lights. A lifelong bachelor, Schuman once answered the door of his Paris apartment wearing a maid's apron; he had been doing his own dusting...
...alive, might well say the same of Minority Report. Not only does Rice exhibit an astonishingly tin ear for dialogue; his autobiographical e frequently reads like a parody of all the memoirs ever written. "We had what is now known as a cookout, with Mrs. Roosevelt, in a bungalow apron toasting the frankfurters over a charcoal grill. When her son Elliott shouted 'Hey, Ma, we're all out of beer!' she replied sharply, 'You know there's always enough beer! Just look around for it!' It was a domestic scene that made one happy...
Lewis Smith's gaudy, magnificent costumes would have been perfect in dance scenes, but they were splendid even without such exhibition. Donald Soule's sets, which used an apron stage and the Loeb's revolving platform for set changes, were flashy and adequate though a bit lacking in imagination...