Word: seamstresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a mammoth new book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
...Philco Television Playhouse in 1954, is something of a revelation. By today's lights, it seems rather dated, obvious and slight. The plot is minimal: despite her children's pleas, a 66-year-old widow insists on looking for work. She manages to get a job as a seamstress but is fired after one day. Depressed and lonely, she spends a night with her daughter and son-in-law. Then she decides to try again. Fade...
Educated by the revolution and promoted from one government job to another, working her way up from seamstress to manager of an arts-and-crafts factory, Rodriguez still keeps a big photo of Cienfuegos on the wall. "I believe in the revolution. I have confidence in the revolution," she says softly. "I understand that the economic situation is bad, but we eat better now than when I was young. If there is a pound of rice, it is equally shared by all. Anyone can go to the hospital and get an aspirin or an organ transplant without anybody asking them...
...generations of black women who have been burned carrying torches into the battle for principle. The cause of civil rights and social justice has so often fallen to them to defend. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. Rosa Parks was a tired seamstress who shoved history forward by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Mechelle Vinson was a bank teller who, having grown weary of a boss who she said forced her to trade sex for professional survival, won the unanimous Supreme Court decision that established the laws on sexual...
During art school I once had a job making bowling shirts. That was a recession year, and you'd do anything for money. I'd take chalk and write names like Louella in script so that the seamstress could go over...