The Slip works on the jazzy side of the jam-band circuit.
The Slip works the jam-band circuit, but its tunes are a long way from warmed-over Grateful Dead material.
Shapes cut from opulent fabrics and small motifs or slips worked on fine linen canvas were applied a background fabric of figured silk, velvet, or plain wool and embellished with embroidery, in a style deriving from the later, simpler forms of Medieval work.
The employees who received pink slips work either at Tweed or at 65 Court Street in Brooklyn, where the Division of Human Resources is based.
"Every man on these slips works himself into a hump," says Mr. Reid, 46, a thick man made thicker each day by the 45,000 pounds of tuna and swordfish he moves.
As his health slipped, Burdick worked more frantically.
The show's producer, a former classical music radio personality and sometime composer named Doug Ordunio, slipped works by Sibelius into both the Chopin and Liszt episodes.
Most school aides — 460 are being laid off, a majority of all the employees getting pink slips — work part time for the schools, earning $14 an hour, or $18 if benefits are included, for four to eight hours a day, a union official said.
Another labourer's pay slip shows he worked every day in April, including 38 hours overtime, for a total salary of £33.50 per week, or £4.80 a day.
In the second accident, Alfonso Loja, 25, slipped while working on the roof of 80-24 45th Avenue in Elmhurst, Queens, said Detective Edward Reuss, a police spokesman.
