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Word: barmaids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Moments later, the older barmaid slaps green paper napkins on the bar in front of her customers. "You're gonna get fed," she announces. In the corner of the service area, the blonde seems to be having some trouble with her upper clothing, and a barman is gallantly helping her. Out of the kitchen comes a giant silver tray of chicken wings, and the young lady emerges from behind the bar to offer around the tasty appetizers. Except now she's topless. Ah, so that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritual Refreshment | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...this mess, he is rescued by Ichimonji, an older and evidently much wealthier man. This patron takes the young foreigner under his protection and guides him through an evening of serious drinking at a succession of night spots, culminating at a hole in the wall where a pretty barmaid agrees to dance naked for just the two of them. The student hears the term mizu-shobai for the first time and later learns what it means: the water trade, the fly-by-night world of bars, baths and brothels to which Ichimonji has given him an introduction. The next morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sun and Shady Nights | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...decent. Harry only reluctantly concedes the validity of his need for emotional renewal, and he never entirely forgives himself the pain he causes. He is, in fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married daughter (Amy Madigan), who ferociously expresses the anger her mother represses, and a younger sibling (Ally Sheedy), whose wedding, in suddenly straitened circumstances, requires some ingenuity from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Breakup | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Garment District also sells new pre-fab outfits, including sexy German barmaid dresses ($44), hula skirts and Renaissance Sorceress ensembles...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second Is the Best | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...Portrait of Jeanne Wenz (La Femme au Noed Rose)” (1886) feature a self-assured, dignified subject. Whether momentarily seated at a table—ready to spring up and mill about—or formally seated for a traditional profile painting, Toulouse Lautrec’s barmaid subject sports a capricious smirk. Again, the artist transcends different settings and poses to humanize and endear to us a confident and dynamic subject...

Author: By Georgia E. Walle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fogg Exhibit Reunites Three Parisian Women | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

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