Word: aproned
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...field. By midweek nearly every house had had its front door kicked in. Croat soldiers had casually sorted through rooms, collecting what was desirable and often setting fire to a house once they were done. Near the town of Slunj, Milka Jurcic, a 73-year-old woman wearing an apron that still displayed its price tag, trundled along a deserted road. She was pushing a rusted wheelbarrow filled with packets of soup, pickled vegetables and clothes. Asked if she was fleeing, she answered sheepishly, "No, I'm shopping...
...hovering presences in much of Jones' recent work. In a long solo piece called Last Night on Earth, Jones uses elements as varied as sign language and jittery body bends from break dancing to evoke the moods of a loving relationship. The piece ends with Jones, dressed in an apron-length white skirt, sitting, kneeling and finally lying on a shroudlike white cloth as he hoarsely and painfully intones the words of the old spiritual Nora's Dove...
...Halloween night in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, children out for trick- or-treat stopped by the elegant N Street townhouse of Averell and Pamela Harriman. They were greeted by a maid in a white apron holding a silver tray full of dimes. How novel! The wealthy Harrimans -- Pamela was the daughter of a British baron, Averell a financier and former Governor of New York -- were handing out money instead of candy. But not a lot. The maid cautioned: "Just one dime each...
...packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes down the stairs, their eyes meet and he is determined to help her escape the wiles of her abusive parents. After Mallory's father, played by Rodney Danger field, propositions her with, "Hey bitch...
...Krumbein fumbled to cover himself, he says,he noticed that the amused lab assistant took asuspiciously long time bringing him a lab apron...