Word: nursemaided
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...this operation. Bacon's starting point is less authoritative: photographs of anonymous, hermetic white bodies in Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion, a snap of a baboon or a footballer in blurred motion, a wicketkeeper whipping the ball across the stumps, the bloodied face of the nursemaid of the Odessa Steps in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, her spectacles awry. These and other images begin as clues, holes in the social fabric, and are then worked up, gradually, into emblems. The elliptical lenses of the nursemaid's spectacles, for example, turn into bigger ellipses, without a face behind them...
...view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television. The result was akin to the reaction of Frederic, the apprentice pirate in the operetta, upon discovering that his spinsterish nursemaid is not the ideal of female pulchritude: disappointment...
...Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. She knows it and she is sorry, because she loves Pirates, and Papp, and Director Wilfred Leach, and Cast Members Rex Smith (the seraphically stupid hero Frederic), Kevin Kline (the pirate king), George Rose (the major general), Angela Lansbury (the nursemaid Ruth) and Tony Azito (the double-jointed police sergeant...
...that helped to eliminate any difficulties the audience might have had with the style, dry by conventional standards but supple and expressive. Especially impressive was the Nero of Susan Larson, taking a part originally written for a male soprano; the Arnalta of Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen, playing a nursemaid in another of the opera's travesty roles; and the Ottone of Countertenor Jeffrey Gall. Kerry McCarthy made a vocally handsome, icily regal Poppea. Pearlman translated Giovanni Francesco Busenello's masterly libretto into idiomatic, singable English...
...other was a quiet, hulking former schoolmate named Ida Baker, a sort of Alice B. Toklas in search of a Gertrude Stein. Ida was never Mansfield's lover, but she attached herself as factotum, confidante and nursemaid. To Mansfield, these ministrations were occasionally suffocating but ultimately indispensable. She sometimes referred to Ida as her wife...