Word: seamstressing
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DIED. LILLIAN PARKS, 100, White House seamstress turned scribe; in Washington. Hardly a tell-all, My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House did depict F.D.R. as a skinflint and Eisenhower as a bully...
...again--that's not likely to be very effective." The handpicked Union Summer activists, however, are far from ivory-tower stereotypes. Among the 30 Los Angeles recruits, for instance, only one is an Ivy Leaguer: Brown University's Marisela Ramos, the brainy daughter of an illiterate East Los Angeles seamstress. Three of the students have worked part time in supermarkets since high school, and some, like Marcio Castro, manager of a Domino's Pizza who attends California State University/Northridge, spend as much time at work as in class...
...made from a material similar to a popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young man has a coat he loves, although it is a Tommy Hilfiger-style jacket. Today's Mimi looks nothing like Puccini's seamstress. She wears tight, shimmering spandex pants with a new holographic material annealed to the surface. Mimi literally glows, and this is the look Bloomingdale's is capitalizing on. As the season progresses, more Rent boutiques will open around the country...
Such penny pinching hurts not just the special-needs patients. Mary Milburn, an 82-year-old retired seamstress who suffers from high blood pressure, was prescribed a blood-pressure medicine to which she was allergic. As a result, her doctor then prescribed a more expensive alternative medication, Accupril, but her managed-care company refused to cover the cost. Milburn, who lives on $440 a month in Social Security benefits, had to lay out about $30 a month of her own money until the company eventually relented under the threat of a lawsuit. Says Milburn: "Thirty dollars a month doesn...
Douglas Day Stewart's script has little use for the novel's other plot line: Hester's difficulty with her love child Pearl. But this Hester is readier to be martyr and lover than seamstress and mother. She is, you see, America's prototype feminist. (Caucasian feminist, that is--Pocahontas, in the Disney cartoon, beat Hester to the p.c. punch.) And the Rev, weak in the novel, is now a fiery film hero, deserving of the preposterous happy ending the filmmakers tack...