Word: missing
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Local officials were notably absent from the stampissuing ceremony, however, and there was some uneasiness in the mostly black city over the near veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...
Attempts to draw too much significance from these athletes' situation is part of the play's problem. Through all the verbal jabbing, backstabbing and competition, the players, teammates for the past six years, realize that their jobs are not what they're going to miss most about being cut. Instead, not too surprisingly and too cliched, they are going to miss each other. When the moralizing commences and the banter begins to lose its freshness, sometime mid-way through the second act, the play starts to drag...
...wonder how long we'll have to watch television commercials featuring Miss Liberty. I guess it'll be a long while. After all, Lee Iaccoca sold the rights to commercials that feature the Statue for $1 million to $5 million each. Funny thing, though, Iaccoca doesn't own the rights to the Statue...
Since VCRs have become the current wedding present of choice and hence may not be available to some couples until it is too late for Miss Manners' tape to be of any prenuptial planning benefit, some more immediate guidance may be called for. Remember the solemn words of Ted Schmidt, general manager of the socially favored Peter Duchin Orchestras: "For weddings, there are no second takes." All right, then. Action...
...that the unthinkable has not happened, and her gown has not arrived late. Philip Youtie offers a stirring evocation of the pressures under which he and all his colleagues labor: "The ambulance, he gets there whenever. The man with the funeral car can come late, you'll wait. But miss the wedding . . . arrrgggh...