Word: barmaids
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...married to an ex-barmaid named Rosaline ("I was pulling pints when we first met," says she), and they have a son Oliver, 16 months. The Wakemans live in a $125,000 white pebble house in Buckinghamshire, complete with electronic eye at the front door, loudspeakers in the bathroom, record shelves in the fireplace...
...away from the office with his cronies, one of whom exults in the invigorating company of a new young wife, another of whom warns of the inevitable encroachments of age. The businessman flirts with the past, memories of his wife and World War II-and with a sympathetic young barmaid. Mostly, though, he is concerned about marrying off his daughter, who at 24 is an increasingly less likely prospect for marriage. Finally, he makes a match for her and she departs from home, leaving him to face the long autumn night of mortality...
Resonance and observation are what really matter here, not plot. Ozu excels at capturing the currents of tenderness and the differences caused by age and experience that flow, sometimes simultaneously, between parent and child. Watching the old man, slightly bleary with whisky, leer at the barmaid, his son says: "She doesn't look at all like mother." The old man smiles, a little sly, a little...
Which brings us to Wheels and The Farmer's Daughter. Barmaids. The Farmer's Daughter because she was and Wheels... well, Wheels because she had nice legs. But to call her Wheels lessens the chauvinism, and surrounds her instead with a sense of mute admiration. Lou Brock has "the good wheels." So'd Bob Hayes. And mute admiration is the whole point. In the context. I'm thinking of the swirling nature of the activity, and simultaneously, its centering down on the individuals at each table, so that each group contributes its individuality to the whole...
...three, Cleo gave her first public performance at a community variety show, warbling a wobbly Let's All Sing the Barmaid Song. "They couldn't get me off the stage," recalls Cleo. "I knew from the start that this was going to be my career...