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...Sometimes, this fair maid strays so far from her origins that it’s hard to remember what all this silliness is in aid of....
...Other characters include Eavan Gaffney’s shrewdly observant maid Lusha and Ian Toner’s wife-beating handyman Yegor....
...He was well matched vocally and dramatically with soprano Emily Pogorelc, another Met debut, as Magda’s maid Lisette....
...About 8,700 workers began striking at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant plant in Louisville. The company said the plant generates about $25bn in revenue a year....
...So much for the lasting stereotype of demure Jane, a respectable old maid. The letters I miss the most are the ones we can’t read....
...It’s not just onstage that women lack agency: Siddons’ maid, Patti, is sexually assaulted by Kemble; a female fan is locked in the asylum by her husband....
...Eugénie insists on eating downstairs with the scullery maid, despite the gentlemen’s pleas that she join them upstairs....
...There are the Sri Lankan and Indian maids whom Jihad shelters after one of them is raped; it’s only after they leave that she realises the shocking power of their solidarity....
...Her testy interactions with her mostly silent maid Mrs Frolick, played with quivering unease by Julie Forsyth, also bring out the character’s brittle hauteur....
...Lopez — whose collaborators include Central Lancashire colleague Roger Clowes and Gerard Williger, from the University of Louisville, Kentucky — presented her finding at a meeting of the American Astronomical...
...Surrounded by maids and chauffeurs, attending yacht parties and soirées, her life is comfortable. Too comfortable, perhaps. Until one day it isn’t....
...Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1961, Whitaker attended the University of Louisville, graduating with bachelor’s degrees in political science and French in 1984....
...The 300 or so staff make this hotel the warm and welcoming household that it is: concierges, receptionists, telephonists, bagagistes, kiosk attendants, cooks, waiters, sommeliers, barmen, housekeepers, maids...
...Veiled, hands clasped in prayer, Lady Adelaide Talbot becomes a meditative nun in “Il Penseroso”. Parlour maid Mary Hillier is “Mary Madonna”, pastiche of a Florentine Renaissance profile....
...Elektra lives with the maids and servants in the filthy courtyard, while the high-and-mighty, led by Klytämnestra, party, rape and butcher at the windows of the palace above....
...Albert died in 1861. In 1897, the queen still forbade her maids of honour from wearing mauve (too close to a cheerful pink)....
...Mrs Dalloway was written during a period of relative prosperity after the first world war: a world still peopled by cooks and maids, and coal-delivery men and butchers who made house calls every week....
...It’s an alternate version of Cinderella in which the heroine, Celaena Sardothien, is an assassin rather than a maid — attending the ball not to meet the prince, but to kill him....
...After a little girl is poisoned by a toxic green dye in “The Green Hat”, her mother takes a job as maid to the owner of the chemical factory that manufactured the dye, quietly amassing a collection of poisoned...
...In another version of the same landscape, a Black nursemaid holds a (white) child’s hand. The maid, so miniaturised that she barely registers, is nameless....
...Each new software developer creates jobs for maids, waiters and delivery riders, so Bengaluru expands, almost daily, through both gated communities and slums....
...Old Friends was first mounted in 2022 as a one-off gala in honour of the incomparable Stephen Sondheim, the great composer and lyricist who died in 2021....
...Families arriving from the UK also need to understand the difference between hiring an au pair there and the maids that are more common in Dubai....
...Her other works include Negrissimo (2003), A Year in Paradise (2005) and The Old Maids’ Empire (2015)....
...Abandoned by her husband, Austen’s mother took her daughter to live there in the late 1860s, alongside grandparents, uncles, an aunt, three maids, plus a pug, a chihuahua and cats....
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