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...child abandoned by her 13-year-old mother and left to be raised by a grandmother who is beaten to death by her second husband. Daddy, as he is called, is not only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant. She shaves him, bathes him and cuts the calluses off his feet. When displeased -- which is often -- he beats her with the buckle end of a belt. The narrator was no angel either: she used drugs and traded sex for cash...
...read every biography of Teddy Roosevelt there was," recalls his college roommate and St. Albans' School classmate Andrew S. Lynn '78. "He very early on knew he wanted to be a public servant...
...read every biography of Teddy Rooseveltthere was," Lynn says. "He very early on knew thathe wanted to be a public servant...
...context of "The Accompanist." The film constantly thwarts the desires of the audience to enter into the though process of a specific individual .Irene is seen only from the outside, through the eyes of her husband and Sophie, while Sophie herself, who, almost pressed into the position of indentured servant, should be the most sympathetic character, seems so devoid of human emotion that she is as colorless in personality as in visual depiction. The audience perceives the principal characters as they perceive each other, solely through sight and sound...
...when, after leaving her family and her village, she arrives in Saigon to be the servant girl in a middle-class home. Here the mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...