Word: seamstressing
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House Committee, Varsity Softball. Dorm Treasurer, Costume seamstress--Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado...
Irons said, "We have a slide show of 50 segments from across the nation, and we use it to help people get started. You don't need to be a great artist or seamstress, you just need a concern for the way world politics are being handled...
...irreverent music lover attends this sassy and unconventional La Boheme in a mood for sedition. That does not mean impatience with the soaring lyrical glories of Puccini's music?nobody boos a sunset. But Mimi, the consumptive Parisian seamstress, has been a dying duck since the opera's first performance in 1896, and her fog-witted lover Rodolfo, the poet, has moped melodiously for the same stretch. A certain amount of dust has gathered. Only the fustiest of traditionalists would grouch at the news that Joseph Papp's musical irregulars from the New York Shakespeare Festival have decided to give...
...Mondale saw it, the choice of a woman would dramatically express his intention to open new doors. And the woman who most closely personalized what he would call the "classic American dream" was Ferraro, whose mother had worked as a seamstress to support her daughter after the father died. Ferraro, in turn, had worked as a teacher to finance nighttime law-school classes. She has been unusually close to her husband for 24 years of marriage and to their three children. Said a Mondale adviser: "She totally symbolized Mondale's fundamental case...
They include a seamstress named Popeye (Belita Moreno) who learned her trade making dresses for frogs and hears Voices through her eyes; a romantic gallant (Mark Linn-Baker) who is haunted by nightmares of dismemberment and memories of an unsuitable recent job sweeping up dead dogs from the road; a sometime belle (Patricia Richardson) who finds it easy to leave her husband but impossible to abandon her clock col lection; and a carnival balloon salesman (Budge Threlkeld), cheerfully wondering which of the three major diseases inhabiting his body will kill...