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...door. Her novel, “The Accommodating Footman,” was left abandoned on the floor. Felicity would go to the stables and become undisguised and naked. She was mad for him, mad for the monumental pectorals straining beneath his suspenders.The yellow firmament above the vast courtyard was assuming an ominous gray. The play of moisture and heat in the air made the supple boughs wag. The tumultuous wind tore violently at her hair and thrust its cold cruel fingers through the laces of her bodice.Then came the rains, first in scattered drops that teased her skin with...
...Petersburg, a city that the author manages, in a passage here and a line there, to sketch with wonderful dexterity. In just a sentence Docx communicates the city’s decay and darkness: “A brutalized dog whimpered in the shadow of the crumbling courtyard. Six P.M now in Petersburg.”Docx’s St. Petersburg is a living city imbued with the qualities of its gloomy, exotically seedy history. As much as the novel revolves around the dead Maria—who, however central to the plot, is always peripheral to the character...
...Although ethnicity plays a large role in Murillo’s life at Harvard, she appears at ease in the multicultural environs of the Winthrop courtyard. Finished discussing her background, Murillo says she’d like to join the rest of her Housemates, picks up her pink Blackberry Pearl, bids a professional adieu, and blends into the pastel-colored crowd...
...always wanted to come back," he says, sitting in the open courtyard of his restaurant beneath the stars. "What brought me back was my age - I don't care if I get shot - and it was just after the signing of the peace treaty. That was encouraging. At last there was no more war. There was a kind of political stability...
...court jesters and dancers who had just entertained the guests before the feast. Dance was an integral part of aristocratic society, and often the Baroque festivals featured private theatrical entertainment including dancing or a ball before the actual meal. Thus, the dance and music performance held in the Fogg Courtyard was incorporated to give modern day viewers a taste of this 18th-century European extravagance. Dancers Camilla Finlay and Ken Pierce, fully dressed in period costume including makeup and wigs, danced to live music performed by a trio of string players. Dances included popular choreographed pieces from the court...