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...Then a cover of Ethel Waters’ subtle riposte to racial stereotyping captured on a 1933 recording of “Underneath the Harlem Moon”....
...In a moment of portentous symbolism, her character, Ethel, is trapped inside a television and eaten by a cartoon monster....
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...And the wall label for “Strange Fruit” identifies the song as “Billie Holiday’s” but doesn’t mention that it was actually written by Abel Meeropol, a Marxist Jew who, after the execution of Julius and Ethel...
...The whole cast has returned for the new series, with only one significant addition – Ethel, the new maid. Ethel wants to make something of herself, for which the other servants make mincemeat of Ethel....
...Many of my staples originate from the Delia Smith cookery book which my sister gave me 25 years ago – a volume reviled by liberal foodies the world over....
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