Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Purlie Victorious Judson (Lance LaVergne), an idealistic young Black preacher who dreams of buying and then integrating a church, brings Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins (Wendy Jamerson), a simpleminded kitchen maid, to town to masquerade as his college-educated cousin Bea. In that guise, Purlie hopes, she can collect from Cap'n Cotchipee the $500 he has held in trust for the real Bea's dead mother. Purlie wants the money to found his church, but when he falls in love with Lutiebelle he runs into a snag. So does the production...
...climbing over rocky mountain, skipping rivulet and fountain." True to form, this batch of maidens comes merrily onstage, chirping away with nothing graver on their minds than their "fleeting leisure"--all except one. While her sisters hop and dance at the front of the stage, she lingers behind to collect samples of leaves and sand and record prissy little notes in a black book she carries. It is an idea whose time is long overdue: a pre-med in a G&S chorus...
...Massachusetts Wholesalers of Malt Beverages Inc., still claims that the new law will be costly to retailers and difficult to implement; nonetheless, he has already called on the association's members to comply. But last week the Massachusetts Beverage Industry and Labor Committee announced a drive to collect the 29,434 signatures necessary to get a referendum repealing the bill on next November's ballot. Their chance of success may be slight. When opponents of Maine's law managed to get a referendum on the ballot in 1979, the voters snowed them under by a vote...
...probably is the end of a line that stretches back to Clara Bow: flamboyant, outsize and so self-absorbed and utterly beautiful that anyone who comes near is likely to be drawn into her orbit by force of gravity. As Fisher puts it somewhat less kindly, "Elizabeth liked to collect trophies...
...organizers will collect signatures, through the end of the week and hand out literature detailing the link they see between improper formula storage and preparation and reduced breast-feeding, and increased infant mortality...