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Uncle Antoine mostly drinks and gossips with his cronies while his wife and his clerk attend to the business. It is the Christmas season, Benoit conducts a flirtation with a young salesgirl, and there is promise of festivity. Villagers gather in front of the store to watch the display window being ceremonially unveiled as if it held half the world's treasure. It seems, at first, an innocent time...
...Amalia Balash, the resourceful salesgirl who carries to her rendezvous a copy of Anna Karena and a telltale rose, Joanna Paps tempers her sure comic sense with a full-bodied soprano that is equally effective. Terry Emerson is her unknown admirer, the kind of man who might place an ad (Gentleman, 30, seeks refined, sensitive young lady for conversation and mutual exchange) in the back pages of the New York Review. To his unassuming graces fall the title song and a handful of comic duets...
Such brushes with danger would not be surprising in the usual run of criminal law enforcement. But the undercover salesgirl and the two lawyers belonged to the enforcement division of New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs, organized in 1970 by Philip Schrag, who had drafted the city's tough consumer-protection code. After more than a year of frustration, Schrag, a onetime N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund attorney, found himself so leeched of civil-libertarian juices that he and his staff "were eager to emulate every police trick we despised, and indeed, ready to invent...
Sale to unmarried students is legal only because the condoms are not referred to as contraceptive devices. A freshman who asked for a condom Monday was corrected by the salesgirl. Leaning across the counter, she whispered. "We sell 'disease preventives...
After Navy duty in the Atlantic and the Pacific during World War II, Muskie returned to practice law in Waterville. In 1948 he married Jane Gray, a bookkeeper, salesgirl and occasional model in a local fashion shop. Attracted by the New Deal, Muskie had joined the Maine Democratic Party and successfully run for the state legislature in 1946. Democrats were such a novelty that he soon became the Democratic house floor leader. In 1954 he was elected Governor, partly because thousands of down-Easters were simply looking for an alternative to granitic Republicanism...