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...consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity, Personal Maid Rose blurts out a childhood memory to Virginia Bellamy. Ever so slightly, the good lady's eyes begin to glaze over...
...machine on 'Lancelot's estate for a movie in which his wife and the movie crew proclaim the "life-enhancing" power of sex between strangers stranded together during a hurricane. While the real hurricane is approaching, Lancelot learns of his wife's infidelities and has his black servant Elgin, an MIT student, secretly videotape her liaison with the director. As the hurricane hits, Lancelot ignites the house, his wife and her cohorts in it. Subsequently he is committed to the Center for Aberrant Behavior...
While Chiang Ch'ing was still a young girl, her mother left her father and went to work as a servant. Of the many nights her mother left her alone at home, Chiang
...first act belongs entirely to the president's wife, played by Lizellen LaFollette. In fact, she speaks almost every line in the act, addressing either a mute servant or the bed once occupied by her puppy while trying to ignore the offstage laughter of the president and his masseur, who, we are told, spend their time telling each other jokes. LaFollette makes a Noble stab at rescuing the show, but her obvious talent is wasted. No one can deliver lines like "proceeds from the benefit will go to the Mongolian idiots" and look good. The President's wife does...
...medicines, and the increasing willingness of patients to sue physicians to make them account for mistakes in treatment. Sci-Tech, in a sense, has been demoted from its demigodhood. The public today rallies, in its untidy way, around the notion that Hans J. Morgenthau put into words in Science: Servant or Master?. "The scientist's monopoly of the answers to the questions of the future is a myth...