Word: aproned
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...Immediately following this mental imperative are images of gunky toilets, fungus, overflowing trash bins. And, if that failed to repel, there is always the idea of unknowingly entering the room of that cute guy in your Justice section with you wearing foul-smelling rubber gloves and a splattered apron and then finding out that his shower sends off one of the world's absolute worst odors. I must admit that I shared the sentiments of my roommate, who wondered, "There are other jobs. Why do people do that...
...APRON SAY, "KISS THE COOK...
...coming (fictional) rock band called Stillwater. Trying to get an interview with Stillwater guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), young Miller finds himself traveling with the band and falling in love with the guitarist's pet groupie, Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), all the while remaining bound to the apron strings of his mother (Frances McDormand), a liberal crusader who sees rock 'n' roll as nothing more than a drug-laden detour on her son's path to law school...
...that magical little refugee from a Piero della Francesca, all inwardness as she contemplates the sneak serve she is about to make. The painting's visual rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance of spontaneous feeling with the discreet display...
Divine Mirrors concludes with a look at representations of Mary in the 20th century. Gertrude Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible...