Word: housemaids
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...children of God, by their generations / after their families, by the house of their fathers / according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward...” They continued on.Fools! As though Felicity cared that her husband was cavorting with the housemaid. He was just like his father: a pathetic lout who preferred underfed complexions and the caresses of dishpan hands to the sexual elegance of his beautiful, aristocratic wife. No, how could she care about that? Now that Frederick had retracted his pasty withered stalk from her garden and taken it to the kitchen...
...woefully. “No one can help me,” he groaned. “Even you, my angelic child.” With a single gesture, Roxanna pulled open the front of her dress, baring her prodigious bosom to the air. Frederick gulped. The housemaid reached out and brought Frederick’s hands to rest above her heart. “I know I am not worthy,” she told him, her bosom heaving with emotion. Frederick’s eyes turned glassy; he looked a little seasick. “But it?...
...living conditions of the impoverished voters that had elected them. On a makeshift stage in Brazil's northern scrubland, Lula, like a triumphant band leader, presented his troupe one by one. The crowd welcomed them all politely, but cheered raucously for Benedita da Silva, the black, former housemaid who picked to oversee Lula's social programs, for Culture Minister Gilberto Gil (one of the country's best known musicians) and for Marina Silva, the tiny, dark-skinned, former rubber-tapper from the western Amazon...
...fled through the dark rooms of his mansion, Frederick tried to erase the image from his mind. He tried to think of Felicity, of the housemaid, of the governess who had seduced him when he was twelve. But no bevy of bosomed beauties could match the burnished biceps of the stable boy and the masterful motion of his fingers as he coaxed music from the violin. The vision haunted him, and it would keep haunting him, a vision that even the oceans of port he imbibed that night would not wash away...
Monday, Feb. 28. Kim’s The Housemaid (South Korea, 1960). 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...