Word: dressers
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...Back in London, he took on the role of a dresser at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, spending his days, as he tells it, "making sure the right costume got on the right person at the right time." He evidently succeeded, since Covent Garden history contains no instances of Madame Butterfly appearing onstage as the Barber of Seville on Paul's watch. Tiring of his operatic existence and still itching for a career in pictures (still ones), he joined a photo agency that supplied images to various clients, among them Time...
...piece: a series of three photographs shot in one room. In the first photograph of this tryptich, a woman with dark brown hair and glasses sits on a bed, only the head of which is visible behind her. The center photograph presents another angle of the same room. A dresser is visible as well as a doorway, through which a portion of a darkened room can be seen. Through the doorway, a portrait of a mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks...
...large angry man shoots a gun at his feet, Bing simply nonchalants, "Whatta hubba." And at the end of his one big speech, telling off a pretty girl's disapproving mom with a final "Nerts!", he turns to storm out the door but instead accidentally walks into a dresser. Quickly he murmurs, "My sense of direction is a little askew," and exits. Maybe Sennett couldn't afford a Take Two, but he had to love Crosby's aplomb in the face of embarrassment. So, for a long time, did movie audiences...
Odyssey Investment Partners and First Reserve Corp., a pair of buyout firms, were among the earliest to tap this replenished reservoir to finance a takeover. Last week they agreed to buy Dresser Equipment from oil-services giant Halliburton for $1.6 billion. More of that can't be far behind...
Girls must be taught to respect themselves, respect others and respect the rules of the institutions to which they belong. School dress codes can help set outer boundaries, but expect an adventurous dresser to go right to the edge. Parents must know that girls can be respectful and smart and still leave the house showing more skin than we would like them to. That's why we need to show them by example--the way my mother showed me in 1974--that we care more about the content of their character than about the clothes in their closet...