Word: shirtwaist
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...Corman monsterpieces, from It Conquered the World to The Little Shop of Horrors. As has happened in other Corman remakes, like Little Shop of Horrors, the original writers and director receive no screen credit on the new Death Race; Corman considered them mere wage slaves in his cinematic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
...veteran New York fire investigator was asked a few years ago to apply 21st century forensic science to the grim facts of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in which 146 young workers died in Manhattan. Ultimately, he found the inferno baffling. It just shouldn't have been so deadly...
...virginity until marriage. Without these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist, she elaborates: "Modesty is misunderstood as repression, prudery and evil. But it's about your right to limits without being accused of hang-ups." Holding back, she adds, "is about the erotic, not the neurotic, waiting for the right person to try." Meeting her, one is struck first by Shalit...
...forest: monkeys, army ants, poisonous frogs. Below, on a path, a woman and four girls, all in shirtwaist dresses. "Seen from above this way," writes novelist Barbara Kingsolver at the outset of The Poisonwood Bible (HarperCollins; 546 pages; $26), "they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve." Fair warning, though what the reader must decide before finishing this turbulent, argumentative narrative goes beyond judging four white American daughters and their mother, set down deep in the Congo in the precarious year...
...what about that dress? Does the long-sleeved, belted, blue shirtwaist from the Gap still matter? Or is it like all those McGuffins in Hitchcock movies, just another evidentiary dead end stuck into the script to fool us for a while...