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Also, Robin has to rescue Maid Marian (Amy Yasbeck), who has a steel Everlast chastity belt which only the destined one can open. I hate to ruin the surprise, but the destined one is Robin Hood...
...surprise, but she had not spent any length of time in the capital before. It is a city that loves a character, and the early profiles of her Florida upbringing invited an instant mythology. Here she came, trailing swamp stories and reptiles, a self-described awkward old maid with a sensible name and big, sensible shoes, a bracing contrast to the precious professionals that the city seasonally absorbs. "I can be impatient," she told reporters last week, preferring to skewer herself rather than let them do it for her. "I do have a temper. My mother accused me of mumbling...
...even have names we feel comfortable with for people who do this kind of work. "Nanny"? O.K. for news headlines -- nice and short -- but too arch and archaic for daily use. "Child-care worker"? Too clinical. And then there's the cleaning lady. "Cleaning lady"? Please! "Maid"? "The help...
...only for the privilege of lording it over someone else? Servants are what economists call a "positional good." That means they are something that, by their nature, not everyone can have. No matter how rich a society gets, it will never be so rich that everyone can have a maid. Someone has to be the maid. Maids are generally valued for the work they actually do, and not for their lowly status. But the fellow standing in the restaurant bathroom to hand you a towel is a different matter...
...Harvard men left for overseas duty, as Radcliffe women joined the services and as the standard maid service began to disappear, it became clear that even the Ivory Tower was not immune to the turbulence of the times...