Word: aproned
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...midwest. It is a low-priced quick-service place lit by art deco lamps, with oaken booths against rough panelled walls, plants slung from the ceiling and sauerkraut served while-u-wait. She is working eight hours a day in a starched white uniform and a red-checkered apron, and she lives above the restaurant with the manager. He is 45 and divorced, a Methodist believer who neither drinks or smokes. He is balding with a budding paunch, he likes the movies, reads little, and drives a shark blue Dodge Dart. She cleans his place and cooks for him after...
...know what else to do with a tenor, put him on a staircase. In Vespri, everybody has been put on a staircase, which suggests that Director Dexter did not always know what else to do with his singers. The stairs (38 in all) rise gradually from the apron to stage rear and, depending on the scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this has its effective moments, although it seldom looks like medieval Sicily. What...
...Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When it was over, the crowd, only partly Greek- American, gathered round the stage apron clapping and cheering, even reaching up to shake the composer's willingly offered hand...
...twelve to 70, it was predominately a Middle American assemblage of young-marrieds. Part of the show was a color film of the Colorado Rockies, featuring occasional shots of Denver trotting in the wilds or swapping jokes with friends around a crackling campfire. Meanwhile, Denver stood at the stage apron and sang his own Rocky Mountain High...
Ruth Geyer is a biology major at Oberlin, but three days a week (for $3 an hour) she dons an apron to wax furniture, wash windows and mop the floors of a ten-room house in the wealthy Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont, Pa. "I haven't had any other experience, so maybe I'm just lucky to have found it," she says...