Word: patronizing
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...Wedekind's play is deeply complex. His title character has been sexually molested from childhood by her father and her adored high-society patron Dr. Schöning, and sex is the only form of communication she knows. For most of the play Lulu is gleefully happy in her seductive power. Schöning and Lulu end up dead, one shot, the other torn apart by Jack the Ripper...
...they envision for their daughters: well-mannered, well-groomed, well-heeled. By day Zhang sells real estate, and his Beijing apartment is filled with pale blond Ikea furniture. He doesn't need the money, really, but he's longing for a new Zegna suit, and his latest patron - the 48-year-old wife of a property magnate - has promised him a spring shopping spree. "We're good for each other," he insists. "I give her confidence about her sexuality and she helps me finance things I could never...
According to William C. Barnes, a Cambridge police officer assigned to work with the license commission, finding a violation requires investigators to catch an underage patron in the act of consuming liquor. In practice, this standard of proof is very high...
...Grille has become much more challenging for the average patron," one first-year regular writes in an e-mail message. "While previously the 'pass-back' was an almost foolproof method for getting in a friend who did not have a positive ID, such activity is no longer even an option. It seems as though the bouncers have become much more scrupulous...
...consists of a demand for a reevaluation of Van Vechten's place within American literary history. Van Vechten, whose literary reputation came under fire during his own time (it has since suffered an even worse fate--oblivion), was a white writer, literary gate-keeper and a "dedicated and serious patron of black art and letters." He spent much of his time frequenting Harlem's famous cabarets and hosting legendary parties where struggling black artists could establish contacts with New York's influential whites. Van Vechten is credited with directly assisting in the publication of many works by black authors, including...