They have little relevance in my current incarnation, juggling my daughter's ballet lessons and playdates with my home-based, slipper-clad work as a freelance writer, but I unwrap a pair of heels at every opportunity.
It is this comic failure of righteousness -- as a chorus of lingerie-clad working girls sings in the opening act, "Reform, reform, it's only a passing storm" -- that is at the good-natured heart of "Tenderloin," a spirit, bittersweet without the bitter, that allows in the end the marriage of a church member to a madam, the promise of romance between a society girl and an uneducated hustler.
The time sheet includes eight categories: formwork, framing and cladding, interior work, insulation, repair, reinforcement and concrete, and other.
But in this context the puppets, operated by black-clad puppeteers, worked brilliantly.
Somber at first, this leisure-suit-clad pianist worked himself into a froth over Mr. Diamond's existentialist reverie.
Still, one thing is clear: a gargantuan effort is under way here at the heart of the Arabian desert, with some 20,000 helmet-clad laborers working long shifts in 110-degree heat.
Busby himself may look a priestly figure these days but in his own time he had plenty of flash about him: a Crombie-clad, modernising, working class entrepreneur of a football manager, and a perfect fit in what was throughout his time an aggressive and aspirational sporting entity.
Suit-clad Wilson worked with Euclid Partners, another New York venture capital firm for ten years, and helped Euclid invest in companies such as Multex and disk drive maker Read-Rite (RDRT).
The picture in the glossy magazine left open on the treadmill showed swarthy, dhoti-clad men at work in an immense hall, arranging in neat lines circular mounds of — what?
Sound boom mikes hover and thick electrical cords are taped to the floor; people toting headsets and clips boards stride purposefully while darkly-clad camera operators work in practiced unison.
