Word: milkmaid
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However, outside influences have already changed the town. As naive yet ambitious milkmaid Maire (Dana Delany of "China Beach" fame) confronts schoolmaster Hugh (Brian Dennehy) for not teaching English: "The sooner we learn English the better...The old languages are a barrier to modern progress...
Abandoned by all except his loyal servant (Laurent Ruseckas), the Frog Prince wanders through the forest, seeking a woman who will kiss and restore him to his human form. He chooses the beautiful milkmaid (Laura Dickinson), living nearby, as his target...
Particularly well-done is the scene in which the Frog Prince proposes, in frog form, to the milkmaid. Dickinson treats his ludicrous romantic proposals with the deepest seriousness. In contrast with Dickinson's straightforward dealings with people, Dawson's own seem particularly disingenuous...
...pseudo-profound milkmaid, Dickinson gives another of the play's outstanding performances. Her character is just daffy enough, gazing off and batting her eyelashes when she declares, "Life is such a mystery." While the milkmaid is essentially a one-note role, Dickinson keeps her surfer-girl facial expressions varied and amusing...
Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...