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...always there when needed. Negro Actor James Earl Jones mentioned that he did not particularly enjoy being called a "spade cat." Cavett allowed as how he could understand that. After all, "The old maid in the apartment above me lives with a spayed cat." Caught on-camera taking a telephone call from the producer, Cavett flashed an exasperated look and ad-libbed: "I've told you never to call me at work, Miss Lollobrigida...
Most of the buildings, too, have changed, on the inside if not on the outside. Rooms are smaller and more bare. Maid service has been discontinued...
...residents of Radcliffe's Avon House--13 Cliffies, the resident couple plus four-year-old son, the janitor, and the maid--applied as a group for admission to Yale. The Cliffies said they were tired of being "second-class citizens" at Harvard, but they also said they wouldn't move south unless. Yale accepted their whole group...
...figure of arguably divine characteristics (Terence Stamp) visits an industrialist's home in Milan. His stay is brief, but during it he manages to make love to the maid, the wife, the industrialist, the daughter and the son of the household. The passion is so indiscriminate and the acting so undisciplined that one half-expects to see the milkman, and perhaps his horse, included in the rutting. But Pasolini has other excesses in mind. When the visitor departs, he leaves behind a shrilling choir of victims. The daughter (Anne Wiazemsky) becomes catatonic; the son, an artist, urinates...
...process seem more like a bringing down, a reduction to absurdity of the meaning and intent of learning. Is there then any rational basis for optimism? It is arguable. Perhaps, reason and prophecy to the contrary, man must rely on the instinctive hope, the muted gaudeamus, expressed by the maid Lily Sabina in Wilder's play...