Word: maids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injected just after a particularly grim section when a drunkard who has been picked up by the troupe dies in their carriage. Nothing in the film, however, is quite so enjoyable as the uninterrupted bucolic clowning during the seduction of the inexperienced, yet swaggering coachman by the luscious maid (delightfully done, as could be expected, by Bibi Andersson...
With its siren muted and its red emergency beacon flashing, the ambulance sped through the quiet, post-holiday streets of Georgetown to the red brick home of President-elect John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby...
Breaking Rocks. Her voice was originally trained for opera. Born in Alabama, Odetta grew up in Los Angeles, picked up money for her voice lessons working in a button factory and as a maid. By the time she entered junior college she was a chorister in productions of Verdi's Requiem, Bach's B-Minor Mass. In those days, she recalls, "if it wasn't classical, I didn't want it." But one night at a party she heard a group of performers from a San Francisco nightspot sing folk songs until dawn, and promptly "fell...
Giving another example, he declared: "The kitchen maid would not need the penny novelette if she could have such excitement in the kitchen, or even on the back stairway...
...impressive list that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...