Recently, I had a fantastic, almost spiritual, experience with a slaphead in a framing shop.
The subtotal was $72.25, less than I had ever paid in a framing shop for a similar size.
"He's a fraud," said Alida Haslett, 53, who works in a framing shop and lives in nearby Bryn Mawr.
The most productive carpenter in a framing crew, for example, might produce twice as much as his least productive colleague, but is rarely paid even 30 percent more.
The result, released in 1949, featured Jennifer Jones as the pretentious, adulterous Emma Bovary, Van Heflin as her cuckolded husband, Charles, and Louis Jourdan as her seducer, Rodolphe; James Mason played Flaubert himself, on trial on obscenity charges, in a framing sequence.
The themes of the day, mercy and compassion, are first broached in a framing story that finds a carload of chattering "Veggie Tales" regulars -- including Dad Asparagus and his son Junior, along with Bob the Tomato and his daughter Laura Carrot (there appears to be some fancy gene splicing going on here) -- driving along a dark back road on their way to a pop concert.
