Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Promoting mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair...
Today Vicki is the Mexican Hat. Sherie, a massage therapist when she is not performing, will be the Winter One. Vicki's trunk, overflowing with costumes and masks, stands in the ravine about ten feet from the Galisteo creek. Sherie, doing a little dance in her robe and mask, suddenly slips on a flat, wet rock and falls hard on her back. "I'm O.K.! I'm O.K.!" she shouts through her mask, and she gets back up. Suddenly an old Subaru cuts down into the ravine, and Ifan Evans, 47, who is driving, brings the car to a sharp...
With seven unrelated segments, the troupe tackles a wide variety of subjects, from city living to elementary school Winter Pageants to Mister Roger's neighborhood. But "tackles" isn't really the right word--the troupe seems to be having too much fun to want to hurt anything. Thus, their satire never has a cutting edge. On a bare stage, these two men and three women bound around with so much togetherness, good will and boisterousness that the place begins to resemble a positive energy seminar...
ESPECIALLY GOOD are two segments in the first half of the show. "Winter Wonderland" gives a quick bittersweet run through of all sorts of wintry wonders--Christmas dinner, snow-bound carts, snow angels, iceball fights, and the spectacle of two curious kids accidentally knocking over their Christmas tree...
...necessity exceptionally well-organized. His desk is neat and he keeps all the information about potential recruits--which may number 700 at the beginning of the recruiting season--in two notebooks. While Head Coach Bill Cleary is only part-time, guiding the Crimson in the fall and winter while returning to an insurance business in the spring and summer, Tomassoni is full-time...