Word: parlor
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Anyone who has ever crooned in a shower will get a tingle out of Amazing Grace-America in Song, a 90-minute special that many PBS stations will telecast on Wednesday night, Oct. 27. Mixing sea chanteys, Victorian parlor songs and cowboy laments, swinging from gospel to Cole Porter to Charles Ives to Billie Holiday, Producer-Director Allan Miller has created a musical mosaic that reflects the variety and vitality of American song...
Opposite O'Briens Funeral Parlor on Mass Ave. there's the Plough and Stars--rowdy, always crowded, but kind of a nice change from the collegiate atmosphere that pervades the Square. The Plough and the Oxford Ale House on Church St. both have live music on weekends, so while they aren't great for talking you can sometimes find room to dance...
...family experience. By the time a child has reached majority, he probably has been to a dozen funerals of older aunts, uncles and cousins. Obsequies provide a chance for catching up on the latest gossip or to do a little business. Southerners still pay condolence calls in the parlor, where they sit for hours with the bereaved, rarely mentioning the dead. At times, church services can be as flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer was laid out in a dark suit, white shirt...
...white-striped bandstand in one scene, for example, cracks open into a pink parlor for the next vignette...
...Associate Editors Peter Stoler and Gilbert Cant got down to the job of medical mystery writing. Cant concentrated on the history of epidemics in the U.S. and on how scientists identify disease-causing agents. He recalled an earlier medical mystery in TIME: the 1957 case of a woman beauty parlor operator who lived in one of the hottest parts of Florida and whose varied and puzzling symptoms were finally diagnosed as Iceland disease...