Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflicting characters of Jason and Medea provide the same interplay between real and fabulous. Medea, leaving her homeland with her new lower Jason, purposefully kills her brother and cuts him into pieces. These she carefully deposits in the path of her pursuing father, who must pause to pick up each bit and prepare it for burial. Thus she escapes with the eminently human Jason, a healthy young man who beds Medea with a cheeky grin at the camera...
...they left five minutes later. We had a skating party, and I didn't see any white people at all. I guess they either think we don't want them or they are afraid something will happen to them down here. Some mothers and fathers come and pick up their kids, and maybe I don't blame them if they are scared. I know one white kid who got on a bus and some black kids just jumped him for no reason at all and beat him. I don't think it happens very much...
Nini, proprietor of Nini's Corner, reacted strongly yesterday to Galbraith's charges. He said that Galbraith should "do some study, and not pick on the people...
...most waitresses, the physical demands of the job and the bad attitudes surrounding the work gradually build up until the individual waitress quits, if she can afford it. I was lucky; I could go back to Radcliffe. Looking back I can pick out some of the worst incidents. One night, two guys came in, ordered two cups of coffee and twenty creams, and said. "We're on welfare; it's the cheapest nourishment we can get." They drank all the creams and built a little pyramid of empty creamer cups--with no tip underneath. Another night, I dropped a tray...
...there was a guy who came in three times a night several times a week with a different pick-up and never left a tip. I finally told him my living depended on tips and would he mind using another restaurant to do his sex scouting? He left, but I was stepping out of place and was reprimanded by the manager. The only way we survived was by having muffin fights afterhours, which was not a very good solution to the problem...