Word: seamstresses
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...Intimate Apparel, a Roundabout Theater production that has been winning steady accolades (including the New York Drama Critics? award for Best Play) since opening off Broadway in April. Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Lynn Nottage?s drama tells the story of a black seamstress (Viola Davis) who makes a living sewing fancy lingerie for rich society women. While patiently saving her money to open her own shop, she strikes up a correspondence with a laborer on the Panama Canal. He proposes marriage by letter, comes to New York to claim his bride, and proceeds...
...intangibility, Brooks takes her responsibility at Tuleh very seriously. Kind of. A mother of two, she goes into the Tuleh offices, which are half a block from her apartment, three times a week if she feels like it. "It's my job to spread love to the seamstress, the financial guy. And if I'm not in a good mood, I won't go," she says. "In order to be original, you have to listen to your desires and be indulgent about getting them. If you're not happy, you can't be a muse. You have to be yourself...
Universal Studios recently sent a demand letter to the Internet Archive because some of the Archive’s public domain films had numerical filenames, apparently leading an automated “bot” to mistake a promotional film of a seamstress-in-training for the submarine movie “U-571.” Even when they accurately identify files, these notifications may not take account of personal uses or fair use defenses...
Rosa Parks was tired after a hard day as a seamstress in the basement of the Montgomery Fair department store in Montgomery, Ala., and she had to run a youth-group meeting later that night for her local N.A.A.C.P., which had been trying to find a way to protest the city's segregation laws. Still, Parks didn't get right on the bus when she left work that Thursday evening. The bus stop was crowded, so she headed to a drugstore to shop for an electric heating pad, thinking she would be able to get a seat home...
...Film: Little Chinese Seamstress...