Word: elina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been coming home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they must wait at least two years for an apartment. Elina has a lecherous boss. Igor hates his mother-in-law." At divorce hearings in Moscow's city court, "the next case was Nicolai Petrovitch against Valentina Petrovitch. Nicolai spoke for about ten minutes, describing Valentina as a lazy, no-good wife who neither kept house nor worked...
...pictures. However, Odile Versois, the salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well-tailored older woman of Elina Labourdette seems a bit lifeless, while Vernon Gray, the not-so-inexperienced son, almost appears to be wrapped in an English...
...trip was really planted by the son, who wants for his part to see if there's life in the old stalk yet. Soon they meet a pretty midinette (Odile Versois)-just right for junior, father thinks. Then they meet a beautiful woman of the world (Elina Labourdette) -just right for father, junior thinks. Yet all at once the son is locked in mortal osculation with the older woman, and father is casting sheep's eyes at the girl, as she allows that "It's much more interesting for a woman if a man is older...
...samba with a chair held in his arms, the robbers who once burglarized an apartment ("they carried down the garbage when they left, it was right on their way, after all"). No one knows of the woman named Morderet; we discover she is a chambermaid, known only as Elina, for "in what records are inscribed the family names of old servants? For Eternity, servants have only a first name, like saints." The story is told softly, but its point--"how to make ourselves known"--comes across without blurring...