Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson lives in a small trailer home in Appomattox County, Virginia, with her disabled husband Virgil and their three children. For 17 years she has cooked and cleaned at a training center for mentally disabled adults; she brings home $1,000 a month, while Virgil's disability payments add $560. Credit cards are banned from the house; she is still ashamed of how they ran up a huge debt and had to declare bankruptcy. The creditors were so aggressive they came and demanded her engagement ring and Virgil's wedding band...
Scott, who had toiled at Pacific Theatres since high school, served as my guiding Virgil. He helped me secure my uniform. Who could resist the chance to be a fashion plate? The gray polyester pants seemed to cling to one for dear life, as if the wearer were their last chance for redemption. There was also the natty dark blue polyester vest, which made me look like a Christmas pudding, and the rakish gray clip-on tie made from some fabric whose origins I've yet to divine. Finally, honor of honors, I also had my very own name...
...Virgil A. Wood a pastor and senior associate of Tawall Development Group, came from Rhode Island to hear Robinson speak. The two men became friends as under-graduates at Virginia Union...
...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
...star fashion reporter, Kitty Potter, a dizzy blonde with a pronounced Southern accent. The studio publicity for "Ready to Wear" gushes that Basinger only had ten days of preparation time for the role--what an agonizing stretch it must have been for her. Kitty is meant to be our Virgil, adding structure and guiding us through the pitfalls of fashion hell. But Basinger, like Altman, his actors and audience, gives up trying to understand what's going on and instead enjoys the spectacle...