T-backs, T-shirts, Coat, and Suit by E.L. Konigsburg

Author:E.L. Konigsburg
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442429253
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-01-25T08:00:00+00:00

ANCHOR I: NewsCenter Five reporter Richard Roebuck went down to the docks on Talleyrand earlier this afternoon and has filed this report. Richard?

RICHARD ROEBUCK (close up, holding a microphone): There is something old and something new on Talleyrand today. (The camera pans to a line of driver-servers, their backs to the camera. Blue blobs cover their lower halves.) Answering a call from a disgruntled employee, we went to Talleyrand today to find shipyard workers enjoying an old service with a new twist. (The camera continues to pan up and down the line of servers as Richard Roebuck’s voice explains the new dress code on Talleyrand.) We spoke to several of the T-back wearers today.

WANDA (Only her head and neck are in view. She moistens her lips, smiles into the camera.): Wearing a T-back is a form of self-expression. (The camera pans over the row of blue-blobs. Velma, her head turned so far around that the veins in her neck look like the coils of a spiral notebook, comes into sharp focus. Her smile is as wide as a porpoise’s. She moistens her lips twice before the camera moves on.)

RICHARD ROEBUCK: Self-expression? The disgruntled employee who called us did not call it that. Whatever you say it is, you have to admit that business on Talleyrand … is … booming.

ANCHOR I (fighting back a smile): Have they broken any laws?

ROEBUCK: None that we could find. The city has no ordinance banning T-backs or, as some people call them, thongs.

ANCHOR II: Thank you, Richard. Florida’s most endangered species has a new friend. That and more coming up after these commercial messages.

ANCHORS I AND II shuffle papers, smile at each other.

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