Word: checkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others Mathilde, an earthmother figure, is a little shallow she massages away others' worries but never quite interacts with them. But for the most part, they are wonderfully human, and their idiosyncrasies become strangely endearing. Perhaps the nicest character is that of Marie, a tousled blonde supermarket checker who blithely undercharges anyone she feels has been cheated by the system but there is also Marco, a pudgy history teacher philosopher with bizarre theories of time and history; or Mathieu, a devout Marxist, who identified himself only as "Labour", trapped in the machinations of capital, a former union organizer who goes...
...EARLIEST CHURCHES in Cappadocia were built in the Iconoclastic period, when representational artwork was forbidden, and are decorated with giddy geometrical designs, all in red: interlocking triangles, spirals, and checker-boards. After the restoration of images in 842, wall painting became iconographic. Later churches are resplendent with brightly colored (the colors being derived from herbs, roots, and the like) frescoes of Byzantine heroes: St. George lancing the dragon, St. Christopher, and the Byzantine Emperor Constantine and his Empress, Helena...
Joseph Soccorso, a Cabot Library I.D.-card checker, said he barely noticed that a search had been conducted...
...gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless endangerment. New York cabbies also include some of the funniest, most charming characters around. (Advice to delegates: If possible, look for the oversize Checker cabs or the radio-dispatched fleet cabs with telephone numbers on their doors; radio cabs are more likely to be cleaned and air-conditioned, less likely to have mugger shields...
McCulloh, premier high jumper, pushed a tray through the Quincy House cafeteria line. It was Bicentennial night at Quincy, and McCulloh, who works as a checker there, took nearly 15 minutes to shove through the line speaking with and good naturedly jeering at friends resplendent in star-spangled vests 'and hats...