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...addition to a bed and a warm meal, UniLu provides guests with a phone, washer and dryer, a place to shower, toiletries and clothes. The shelter staff refer guests to organizations like the Somerville Coalition for the Homeless, which will assign them professional caseworkers, according to Fisher...
...simple but effective set, too, works toward making concrete the unifying themes of the text: the village's washer-women are provided with a river, via the simple expedient of a roll of blue fabric, making visible the torrent of water that infiltrates areas of the play as a symbol of fertility and female power. Inside Yerma's house, the furniture is sparse--a rocking chair, a table, jugs for water--and the dominating element is the starkest one of all: a doorway, erected against the air, marking the boundary between the house to which Yerma is expected to keep...
...monitor on the dashboard to make parking a cinch. Fleetwood Enterprises' Bounder, the best-selling motor home in America, has a computer stand and prewiring for a satellite dish as standard features. There's more home in them too, with options for queen-size beds, glass showers, bathtubs, washer-dryers, TVs, VCRs, solar panels for heating, hardwood floors and granite sinks. Think land yacht rather than tent on a truck...
...Maryland social workers think that a welfare applicant with even minimal skills can get a job as a "day-care assistant or perhaps dog washer for a veterinarian." Child-care workers across America must be gnashing their canines at being equated with dog washers. Do these social workers really believe that taking care of children is a suitable occupation for a minimally educated person? Which job do applicants select more often--caring for children or washing dogs? If respect is a factor, I'd put my money on the latter. REBECCA J. COOPER New Harbor, Maine...
...weeks, laundry for working roommates needs to be done frequently and well--not wrinkled or damp like most of my clothes at school turn out. When there's a kitchen in the room, trash is also a high maintenance activity, not just a weekly afterthought. Our tiny dish-washer needs to be run a few times a day. Dust and other strange substances collect on every surface in the place. And if something breaks, you cannot call your mother or your superintendent...