Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quiet Please" and "Sittin' Pretty," involvethe same characters, who scream, defecate, curse,kill and make cannibalistic cakes. The third film,"Deep Sympathy," set in a funeral parlor, involvesevery kind of sexual and social act that a personcan imagine, and even some that no one shouldimagine. The only reassurance for the audience isthe divine intervention at the end, which attemptsto make up for the unsettling humor...
...dollars an hour, you can still sit in the shop's upstairs parlor, play chess, drink coffee and smoke any tobacco mixture...
About ten years ago, a Los Angeles Times columnist, desperate to find some meat for the next day's paper, convinced a friend to get a tattoo at a cheap, back-alley parlor. Returning to his hotel, the columnist tried out his story on the bell captain. The bell captain could not conceal his horror. "You made that poor girl get tatooed?" he asked. "Just for a newspaper story...
...told him. "You don't understand. My parents have spent the last year lecturing my eighteen-year-old brother on the dangers of tattoo parlor needles, and so if I come home for Thanksgiving with "Semper Fi" stamped...
...will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation. She is also pushing for micro-settlements for thousands of small guilty parties. "Nobody at EPA is after the pizza-parlor guy who may have sent his waste to a municipal landfill," she says. "That's not what Superfund is about." She also hopes to reduce litigation by suggesting, among other solutions, that corporations bypass lawyers by sending their ceos to negotiate with senior EPA officers. "This is not to denigrate...