He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.

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"As long as the invisible labor is borne by women, things aren't going to be equal, even if surveys show they are, " Smock says.

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In his old-fashioned smock and full white beard, taking up a stub of sanguine chalk, Keating was as much in character as his model.

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Mr. DAVID SEDARIS (Writer): (As Crumpet the Elf) I wear green, velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock and a perky little hat decorated with spangles.

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Dressed in the ageless garb of the Hong Kong grandmother - a dark, work-worn smock and trousers - she disperses all comers with a loud cry.

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''I also get inspired by the country life here, '' says Max as he dons his signature white smock and weaves between seamstresses busy at their machines.

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So-called "emotional labor" -- tasks like writing holiday cards, scheduling doctor appointments and planning family gatherings -- is too often left to wives, says University of Michigan sociologist Pamela Smock.

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Nazir Ahmad, a bearded man in a long, opium-stained smock, said that he had twenty people to support and four jiribs of land, from which he expected to harvest twenty-five kilos of opium.

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With him was another man, also in a black peasant's smock and the dark gray trousers that were almost a uniform in that province, wearing rope-soled shoes and with a carbine slung over his back.

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The right one disappears into his smock.

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