Word: aproned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Close your eyes and picture Family Dinner. June Cleaver is in an apron and pearls, Ward in a sweater and tie. The napkins are linen, the children are scrubbed, steam rises from the green-bean casserole, and even the dog listens intently to what is being said. This is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair. The idealized version is as close to a regular worship service, with its litanies and lessons and blessings, as a family gets outside a sanctuary...
...half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or a pair of die. It was Terrazas tradition to stand behind the counter at Ben's: Martin and Miguel's father, uncles and cousins worked there, wearing the store uniform, a full-length orange apron. There was another family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis was a Marine; Uncle Thomas Hance is on his second tour of duty in Iraq. The youngest of the Terrazas brothers, Andres, 14, says he wants to join the Marines. Martin would have joined too, but a bum shoulder...
Back in the product meeting, someone suggests selling a Batali apron "at a stand in your restaurants." Finally, Batali draws the line at marketing himself...
It’s real fucking rough being a wealthy, white man at Harvard. Like, everyone’s so jealous. These leftover betties haven’t managed to leave feminism in the 1970s. I’m not asking them to wear an apron. I’m granting them the opportunity to wear a linen apron in my house in Corfu, just for show. While wearing heels. “Oooo, bend over to pick up that cashmere scarf, baby.” And the only girls who want to get in my pants, er, wallet...
...Police investigated a theft in Currier House that occurred as a result of an unlocked room. The items stolen included $300 in cash and a backpack worth $70 containing four books and a black work apron...