Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last October Richard Neumann, a Naperville, Ill., land developer, devised a promotional scheme for his new $15 million resort complex. He decided to hire a flagpole sitter to perch atop his resort's 45-ft. flagpole for a year. The perch was actually a 10-ft. by 10-ft. cabin complete with refrigerator, television, bed, stove, chemical toilet and telephone. The pay was not bad either: $1,000 a month, plus a $2,800 bonus if the sitter stayed up for the full year...
...occupation to for Eskimos and masochists. Hunkering down beside holes in icebound rivers and lakes, in temperatures that would give a seal the sniffles, the Izaak Waltons of midwinter would spend hours shivering and waiting for the tug on a line that told them a pike or a perch had been hooked...
...staggering the audience seats), Paul Eisenberg's functional set--a series of steps forming a stadium-like arrangement--aids in creating a feeling of isolation between Littlechap and the world. Thus, whenever Littlechap decides to stop the proceedings, as it were, he is simply able to get off his perch and momentarily walk away from the problem, which is always anchored conveniently on the "steps of life." Except for the brief appearance of the Boy, Littlechap is the only male member of the cast, and Susan Ehrlich's costumes further enrich this aspect of his constant solitude...
Senora Dolores kneels outside her house, scrubbing the family's soiled clothes on a rock. Her small son sits in the large basket with the laundry. Flies perch on his sombrero and face until his mother lovingly brushes them away. The clean clothes hang on the nearby maguey to dry. "How do you like our town.?" she asks. "You are not bored...
...first few weeks of the hearings, there was a raucously dressed woman named Fifi seen in the room every day. She would deck herself out in a weird hat, several layers of wild jackets and dresses and an extensive collection of bracelets and other jewelry. And from her perch in the press section, Fifi let those around her know exactly what she thought of each witness...