Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer, when the group has chartered a boat in the Caribbean, Nick's wife, a neurotic photographer, has been replaced by Ginny the stewardess (Bess Armstrong), who is pretty and sensible but who rocks their boat with her enthusiastic lovemaking. Not only does it keep the other couples awake all night, it makes them wonder where the magic of their marriages has gone...
Kean highlights the humor of "Barcelona," bringing to it a similar interpretation. In this familiar song, Bundy begs his stewardess bedmate not to leave the morning after, all the while hoping she will. She cooperates by insisting that she must fly on to Barcelona. At the last minute, she agrees to stay, much to his chagrin. In this piece, as throughout, the two use only one or two props, and remain clad in streetclothes. They pick a theme begun some time earlier in a musical that the audience, of course, doesn't see. But even without a developed plot they...
Even strict worker-conduct rules win wide support. For example, alcohol is banned at company lunches, and male employees are forbidden to wear long sideburns or beards. When a stewardess was fired for posing out of uniform in a Playboy picture layout last year, one offended colleague observed: ''The company was justified." Despite such rigorous standards, Delta has a stunning 250,000 job applications on file...
Such pizazz impressed good-ole-boy Texans, who were soon vying for aisle seats where stewardess viewing was best. Southwest flights were also packed because of the low fares. A nighttime or weekend trip from Houston to Dallas was only $13 on Southwest, compared with $26 on competing Braniff and Texas International. Soon the inexpensive and colorful Southwest flights within Texas were as much a part of local tradition as the Alamo, longhorn cattle and the Dallas Cowboys...
...have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse's white mustache as he says: "They won't look like World War II nurses' uniforms...