Here the innkeepers jot their accounts, sort the linen, drive bargains with the poultry woman and the egg child, arraign the servants, play the gramophone, drink chocolate, chat and doze; and here the guests sit, smoke cigars, have their hair cut, shout for servants, play the gramophone, drink rum and chocolate, chat and doze.
He told me how every three months, from the time of their arrest in 1995 until 2000, when prison visits were first allowed, his family would load up the car with clothes, food and bed linen and drive 12 hours from Benghazi to the prison, in Tripoli.
The linen is driven to a small industrial shop, Central Laundry, in Stamford, Conn.
They stitched its linen carapace, drove the roof cranes that shifted wings and tail fins into position, and installed its electrics.
So the drivers are already at much less risk than the men who drove in linen helmets and string-backed gloves.
For those hoping to glean autobiographical details from "Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook Clarkson Potterer; $45), there are few tidbits: this 744-page primer, hypnotically instructive about everything from adhesive shelf liners to linen closets to zip drives, is as clinical as its author's portrait.
It crackles amid the teacups in her conversation pieces; it drives the needle that stabs the linen in Lady at an Embroidery Frame (c1881).
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Marie Sylvain, a longtime nursing home worker, was so upset about her low wages and workload -- feeding, washing, dressing and changing linens for 14 patients each shift -- that she decided to lead a unionization drive.
But since the local Ames department store went out of business in 2002 — a victim of its corporate parent's bankruptcy — residents have had to drive to Plattsburgh, 50 miles away, to buy basics like underwear or bed linens.
The dancers don simple linen clothing to enact the failings of an early civilization, in vignettes that depict the burning drives of lust, greed, sloth and the rest in sometimes vulgarly comic, sometimes grimly cruel tableaus.
