Word: aproned
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Johnny (Danny Aiello) has just proposed to her. Though she does not love him, she accepts. He is, well, a nice man. but he suffers from a strong Oedipal conflict. His mamma may live in Palermo, but her apron strings reach across the ocean to her favorite bambino...
That anxiety has become a standard rite of passage for American parents. Beaver's family, with Ward Cleaver off to work in his suit and June in her apron in the kitchen, is a vanishing breed. Less than a fifth of American families now fit that model, down from a third 15 years ago. Today more than 60% of mothers with children under 14 are in the labor force. Even more striking: about half of American women are making the same painful decision as McPherson and returning to work before their child's first birthday. Most do so because they...
...This girl in a David's Cookies apron let me in, "said one Harvard party-goer. "The lights were all out, and people were crouching down to stay out of sight...
...while he's at it. He's the kind of man any woman would count herself lucky to find, adept at making dinner while helping you beat a murder rap. And without burning the sauce. It takes a while for Viveca to warm up to this knight-in-shining apron, but it's only a matter of time before the sparks start flying and the buns start burning...
...thought of doing all these things while serving coffee to customers and washing their dirty dishes. This night in the Tasty was my chance to a prophet for the next generation. Karl had given me an apron at midnight, he had agreed a couple of days earlier to let me work the night shift with him, and by 3 a.m. I not only thought I was a expert at my job as coffee master but that I was a genuine character as will...