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...maid's Italian," Jocko said. Littlefair said, "We've got two, a husband and wife. They're Spanish. You can hear them arguing at night. All Spaniards argue after work." "We're not Italian," Mario Scaduto was saying. "We're American. We've got this huge house in Silver Springs, Maryland." But Mario's accent, and its nervous urgent tweet, was English. "We went to Trinidad on a yacht my father chartered," the mouse-faced boy called Littlefair was explaining...
THIS WAY, POR FAVOR Homeowners who employ Spanish-speaking maids and gardeners no longer have to take Berlitz lessons to communicate with them. Tell a Maid and Tell a Gardener (published by Tell-a-Maid, $2.50 each), devised by Linda Wolf, a Beverly Hills language teacher, consist of detailed checklists of chores in Spanish and English, terms for household and garden utensils and multicolored pages of cutout cards with instructions in both languages, like "Take out the trash" and "Polish the silver." The books, available at supermarket and pharmacy checkout counters, have drawn fire from some Hispanic organizations that regard...
...exhibits the strongest female voice, with her resounding alto in the famous song, "Sweet Little Buttercup." Other successful numbers include Sir Joseph's description of his rise to the first admiralty of the navy--accompanied by his sister, cousins, and his aunts--and the Captain and Deadeye dust, "Merry Maid and the Tar," which goes into encore verses...
...becomes progressively more difficult, however, even to determine which side of the line he occupies. Distinctions blur. The magistrate flies into hysterics on learning that Marta allowed the maid's son to touch his Mickey Mouse collection...
...process to package a fresher-tasting orange juice. It has mounted a classic P & G campaign to promote Citrus Hill brand juice in Iowa and Indiana with cents-off coupons, free samples and a TV advertising blitz. This venture marks another bold confrontation with Coca-Cola, which makes Minute Maid, the bestselling orange juice...