Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race incident a few hours later. And the same man again whom Benny found sitting behind the desk when he applied for a job that afternoon. Now that same night, in whose fancy home had Benny's wife just gone to work as a maid? Small world. New York, just full of coincidence. Small book, this lurid first novel, which overworks coincidence, seduction and dialect ("What-chou all want?") to prove that sex is the squeegee of tension, "the instrument that wipes the wet dirt from the window." Asks a middle-aged woman in a symbolic parlor scene...
Every other day in the week, breakfast is no more than coffee and a banana. By 5, DeBakey is at work in his den, the one room in his comfortable Regency house to which not even his wife or the maid has a key. The huge horseshoe-shaped desk (like almost everything else that DeBakey owns, it is the gift of a grateful patient) is crammed with stacked lantern slides of diseased arteries, patients' histories, statistical analyses of the results of thousands of operations, reprints of reports by other surgeons, masses of correspondence, and a tiny portable...
Connie Christo brought to the part of the maid a bedraggled appearance and a resigned way of walking and speaking which well confirmed her statement at the end of the play that she has been a party to these lethal teacher student relations forty times a day ever since they began. The conclusion of the play inspires the monstrous vision of an endless succession of hapless pupils each turning up for the lesson which is to prepare her for adulthood, only to be done in and coffined by her instructor...
...Dean have endured, at least until next week, which is unique in a market where one-hit-and-forever-miss performances are the rule rather than the exception. Eva Boyd is typical. A few years ago, Eva was a 17-year-old maid working for a husband-and-wife songwriting team. On a dare, she recorded one of their songs, The Loco-Motion. It sold more than 1,000,000 copies, and Little Eva, as she was billed, picked up $30,000 and has not been heard from since...
DAIRY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...