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Word: barmaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scrawny Tom Collins is sent to infiltrate the Cafe Ole, where he soon bares his argyle cardigan breast for the woman of his dreams, barmaid Ginny Tonic (Ted Stimpson '89). His polyester pelvis gyrations and saddleshoe pirouettes team with his outstanding voice to make the "I Copped a Feeling" number shine. If not for Collins and the choreography, the lyrics of the number would put the audience to sleep...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Puttin' on the Blitz | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

Especially engrossing are Cat's adventures on the road--belting out raunchy songs with a pack of drunken soldiers, murmuring flirtation with Diane, a savvy young barmaid with piercing "triangular" eyes, flinging a hand-grenade which nearly explodes in his face...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Tales From a Dubious Wonderland | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

...collaboration) True Stories has down-home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperately Seeking Something | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...ghastly hallucination that countless women have: one day, the long-buried secrets of a misguided, misspent youth are dug up, dusted off and flung into full public view. But in Ginny Foat's case it was all too real, and far worse. Along with revelations about her barmaid-and-battered-wife past, Louisiana police dredged up a warrant for the robbery and murder of an Argentine businessman near New Orleans 18 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminist Freed | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...proponents of licensed lust even held a parade on Main Street to support les girls. Sportin' house advocates point out that the ladies kept to their quarters and had regular medical checkups. "They sure kept a lot of strange men off the streets," says Gayle Williams, a barmaid at Saloon Number 10. They also contributed to local charities, as well as such causes as the Jaycees and the Little League. Moreover, many of the hunters who flock to Deadwood purportedly to bag antelope, moose and elk in the Black Hills were said actually to have spent their time stalking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Deadwood's Defunct Houses | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

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