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...will also naturally be expecting certain standard beats in the story. The mother protecting her newborn babe, the little boys traveling alone and in need of some parental guidance, the super capable hostess (Julianna Margulies) who provides a lot of commonsensically courageous behavior. It should probably go without saying that both pilots are rendered herpetologically inert and that someone without experience (shades of Doris Day in Julie) will have to land the plane. Put this another way: Snakes on a Plane is, most basically, a standard disaster-in-the-air movie with a great - oh, all right, salable - gimmick...
...Love in a Cold Climate” mainly takes place at Hampton, the lavish country estate of the formidable Lady Montdore. Vicious, egotistical, and above all, vastly wealthy, Lady Montdore possesses all the attributes of an excellent society hostess...
After the Gateses returned to the hotel, I went back to Meera Bagh to talk to Sushila. She was giving her children a bath, but she stopped to play hostess to yet another foreign inquisitor. I sat on the bed, and she stood beside it, discreetly breast-feeding Liza while Puja, the toddler, hid under her sari...
...city. Moscow becomes a symbol of everything their lives are not, holding the potential for the radical changes of excitement and prosperity. Apart from pining for the remote possibility of a move to Moscow, the sisters spend their time engaging in various romantic entanglements, reluctantly working, and playing hostess to the soldiers garrisoned in the town. This staging of “Three Sisters” often places the action in vague and undefined spaces. Although the events theoretically take place at the turn of the century, the set is defined by extremely modern elements. The most obvious of these...
Then I saw the hostess. She was hunched over on the linoleum with a paper towel in both hands, scrubbing with determination at a spot on the floor. I walked over to her, my palms a bit damp with sweat. A lot was riding on this encounter...