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...there the confusion is just beginning. One Antipholus brother and his servant, Dromio, end up in Ephesus. The other Antipholus and the other Dromio land in Syracuse. Neither Antipholus or Dromio knows of his brother's existence. But one day, the Syracuse set comes to Ephesus, where the Antipholus there has established himself as a prominent and respected member of the community. He lives with his faithful but buffoonish servant, the Ephesus-based Dromio, his lovely and pampered wife Adriana, his sister-in-law Luciana and a rotund, lustful kitchenmaid named Nell...

Author: By Yuko Miyazaki, | Title: Comic Confusion Abounds: | 3/16/1990 | See Source »

MARY REILLY by Valerie Martin (Doubleday; $18.95). The Jekyll-Hyde saga from the point of view of a spunky, sensual servant girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 12, 1990 | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...closely, and then closer still, you will understand why each piece took so long to complete. The attention to detail is incredible. The artists, equipped with kitten hair paintbrushes, individually drew every hair in the brow of every two-inch high prince, and captured the expressions of every tiny servant that populated every prince's palace...

Author: By Angela S. Lee, | Title: Painting Fit For Princes: Sackler Exhibit Opens | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

...Murdoch are about as sturdy and reliable as a well-made trench coat. The reader can count on several things from these lengthy dissections of the British intelligentsia, and the new installment, her 24th, is no exception. One can be sure, for instance, that demon lust and his faithful servant, self-deception, will make fools of the witty, wise and powerful. There will probably be a maddeningly masochistic woman and a childish, manipulative man. A young person, usually a girl, will act as an unsparing force of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murdochisms | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...public servant: "I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa A Hero's Triumphant Homecoming | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

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