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...when he was 30, the wealthy Victorian Arthur Munby took upon himself a singular task: the detailed observation of women engaged in manual labor. Until his death in 1910, Munby faithfully made his rounds, traveling to Yorkshire fishing villages, to Welsh coal fields and, on occasion, to France and Belgium. The result of this avocation is a series of richly drawn portraits. Editor Michael Hiley has sifted through voluminous notes to provide a gallery of dustwomen, fishergirls, sackmakers, brickmakers and collier girls, complete with a sense of their accents, labor conditions, social attitudes, even the texture and color of their...
Munby admired "the beauty of manual labor"-so much so that he carried on a 19-year courtship with Hannah Cullwick, a maid-of-all-work, the lowliest of domestic servants (they were married in 1873, but Munby could never bring himself publicly to acknowledge the union...
...there is a modern manual of leadership widely admired in the world today, it is the memoirs of France's Charles de Gaulle. His lessons are simple but rarely heeded in most White House proceedings. De Gaulle wrote of the need to concentrate on the questions of greatest national importance, of the necessity of delegating authority, of remaining at a distance but not in an ivory tower, of talking constantly to his people not about themselves but the greater interests of the nation...
...found, in the company of dozens of other men, loitering under the 40-ft.-high neon signs of Lucy's Drive-In at the corner of Pico Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles' Miracle Mile district. Gaines is hoping for a job as a manual laborer, but if by 10 a.m. or so he has not found one, he heads for the beach. He is not lazy; the beach is merely, as he puts it, "the only cheap place around...
...moral code. Hagman and Patrick Duffy serve as chief pranksters. Hagman will often go crosseyed in closeups, and has been known to come to work wearing a fire hat with a revolving red light. Duffy's character, Bobby Ewing, functions primarily as a Boy Scout manual with muscles, picking up after everyone else's mess. One day, the script called for him to discover the pregnant, drunken Sue Ellen passed out in her station wagon on the side of a road. He was to pick her up and carry her to his car. But on the set, Duffy...