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...improbability of her happiness. To think that Viscount Frederick, always so devoted to his ancestral manse, would suddenly bow to his wife’s request that they go to Italy now, immediately, at once. The couple had brought along only Roxanna, Viscountess Felicity’s personal maid. Their departure had been strange. Felicity had developed a sudden fear of horses, and she refused to ride or even to be driven in a carriage. So Roxanna followed Felicity on foot to the train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months...
When I get to my apartment, I find Suman, the maid who does the cleaning in my building, waiting outside the door. The price of lentils, a key component of most Indian meals, has surged in the past few months. She hasn't been able to increase her rates yet, so she has had to take an additional cleaning job to make sure there is enough food at home. She will have to leave my apartment sooner every day; she hopes I will not dismiss her for this...
...When I get to my apartment, I find Suman, the maid who does the cleaning in my building, waiting outside the door. The price of lentils, a key component of most Indian meals, has surged in the past few months. She hasn't been able to increase her rates yet, so she has had to take an additional cleaning job to make sure there is enough food at home. She will have to leave my apartment sooner every day; she hopes I will not dismiss her for this...
...Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried, unsuccessfully, to go further. Lena and Gail settled down across the street from the Humphrey Bogarts, and Gail went to school with Natalie Wood. If Lena's durable career seems to have...
...mobile media mosh pit, including myself, toured The Waterfalls from the deck of a Circle Line boat. Something just like it will take people around the sites several times a day between now and when the Falls come down on October 13. If you're familiar with The Maid of the Mist, the boat that tootles around Niagara Falls, you've got it pictured, though Eliasson's city-cousin cascades are nowhere near as mighty as the Niagara...