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Thompson was to her manners born. Her mother is actress Phyllida Law, who plays the pruney maid in Peter's Friends and Hero's attendant Ursula in Much Ado; her father was actor-director Eric Thompson; Emma's younger sister Sophie was a successful child actress. Of her parents Emma says, "The main influence is that actors are so good with children. They do not patronize them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious...
...this search not for spies, or thieves, or traitors, but for . . . aliens? All last week across Washington, and in scores of smaller seats of government in towns around the country, there came the confessions. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown admitted that he had not paid Social Security taxes for a maid who had worked for him for about five years. In between plotting his four-part peace plan for Bosnia, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he hired a lawyer and an accountant to take a look at his records. The inquisition reportedly eliminated as many as a dozen people from...
Second, the standard apparently will not apply to officials who have already slipped through the Senate confirmation process. Despite Ron Brown's admission that he failed to pay taxes for a part-time maid, Administration officials insist that the commerce secretary will keep...
Already a third potential attorney general nomination--that of Charles Ruff--has been derailed by revelations that the prospective nominee failed to pay Social Security taxes for his maid. And we have yet to see whether a "Maid-gate" scandal will end Brown's tenure prematurely after his corporate connections failed...
...Ground, his best and brashest record since the 1973 Band on the Run. His tendency toward sentimentality is held in check by boisterous guitars and lyrics that raise an activist banner against animal abuse and social intolerance. The quirky orchestral embellishments on Golden Earth Girl and Mistress and Maid recall the Fab Four's psychedelic phase, while C'mon People, with its heartfelt appeal to "get it right this time," evokes the Utopian sweep of Golden Slumbers and Hey Jude...