Word: seamstressing
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...wrong. I know that honest work is honest work. My father is a farmworker and my mother a housewife and seamstress, and so I have had the experience of being a member of the Lumpenproletariat (which somehow seemed appropriate, since Karl Marx's birthday always falls on Cinco de Mayo). However, Harvard is supposed to be a pass to bigger and better things, and I hadn't expected to end up shoveling popcorn into Value Size cardboard containers. Soon enough that enterprising Harvard spirit set in: I set my sights on being employee of the month. I was sure that...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 24 Quincy St. 495-4700. $5 for students. "How to Murder Your Wife" at 3 p.m. "Some Like It Hot" at 7 p.m. "The Seamstress...
...Louisa May Alcott classic as well as a new "novelization" based on the screenplay based on the classic. Below is a key passage from each. Can you tell which was written to please the marketing department at Columbia Pictures and which came from the pen of an impecunious schoolteacher, seamstress, nurse and domestic who grew up surrounded by fiery abolitionists and transcendentalists? (Warning! Don't read further if you're male and therefore don't already know how the story turns...
...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...