Word: barmaids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand and he wanted to teach me. He pointed out that most of the people at the bar were queens or prostitutes. So I looked at all those elegant women with dresses slit high up the slim leg and cut low down the smooth chest, and asked whether our barmaid Mickie...
Though the increasingly Rubensian Elizabeth Taylor is a good choice to play the aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...
...forces bars to close by 2 a.m., so don't expect to find anywhere open after that. Cronin's main drawback is that it closes about half an hour earlier than the others, but you can always run over to 33 Dunster for a last drink. As a former barmaid, I consider it my duty to remind you to tip your waitress--a quarter per person is the absolute minimum, more is always appreciated. Come the revolution, tips won't be necessary; but for now, no one can live on $1.15 an hour...
...student porter once heard Carolyn Randall '77 assert: "I think it's ridiculous that people can't clean their own bathrooms." But he also heard Bonny Landers say, "I'm grateful for the job. It's either this or being a barmaid in Boston." The student porter is filled with ambivalence as he is sucked into a confrontation he does not desire, his mop is not even...
...Buchner's sketchy minor roles. Leo-Pierre Roy plays the parts of captain, sergeant, innkeeper, and pawnkeeper with equal comic grace. Christopher Agee is the model of a fiery young drum major interested only in getting his way, and Ann Strassner is especially good as Katey, the accomodating barmaid, trying to keep everyone happy while having a good time herself. But paradoxically it is Bonnie Ann DeLorme as the victimizing doctor who offers the most fully developed characterization. DeLorme's visible self-hatred as she forces Woyzeck to live on peas for the sake of her experiment is her private...