Word: butlering
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...Wind Done Gone indisputably uses characters, events and settings from GWTW. Randall changes names--Scarlett O'Hara becomes "Other," Rhett Butler "R," Ashley Wilkes "Dreamy Gentleman"--but these draw whatever substance they have in this version from the people fleshed out in Mitchell's novel. Randall's invention is the character Cinnamon/Cynara, the slave Mammy's mulatto daughter and the half sister of Scarlett, er, Other. Cynara's diary forms the basis of The Wind Done Gone. She writes of her childhood at Cotton Farm and Tata (Tara) and then of events after the period covered in GWTW: her freedom...
...made Harry Potter so beloved. For Artemis is repellent in almost every regard. This mastermind is the know-it-all scion of a criminal and fabulously rich Irish family, lately fallen on hard times after the mysterious disappearance of Artemis' father. So the son and his burly henchman Butler embark on a quest to buff up his inheritance by stealing gold from the fairies, who live beneath the earth, having been driven there by the proliferation of humans, or "Mud People...
...William Butler Yeats once wrote, “body swayed to music, O brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance?” In “Dancer’s Viewpointe,” the spring dance concert at the Rieman Center on March 16 and 17, the dancers were inextricable from the dance...
...over just the past three years, according to J.P. Morgan Private Client Group. (A reading of 0 means that two markets are as likely to go in opposite directions as they are to go in the same direction; 1 means that two markets always go the same way.) Kirt Butler, professor of finance at Michigan State University, and Domingo Castelo Joaquin, professor of finance at Illinois State University, found in a study that correlations go even higher in down markets. Think of the 1987 stock-market crash. No major market escaped the damage...
Someone intends for your next glass of water to be peppered with arsenic, and it will not be the prosaic English butler with the devilish glint in his eye. Rather, at the center of this mystery is the president of the United States...