Word: slavey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tribute to her mimetic gifts that she did so with such total persuasiveness. The reason was largely that her child-woman screen character was anything but sticky sweet. In Stella Marts, for instance, she played a double role: a crippled heiress and a love-obsessed slavey who commits murder so that the heiress and her lover (whom the slavey also loves) can find happiness. In the Dickensian Sparrows, she played a clever and persistent teen-ager who frees the inmates of an orphanage from sadistic bondage. It was a strong role for a forceful woman. Even in pictures like Pollyanna...
...While you sit on your ass making the revolution, I'm out there in the kitchen like a slavey. What we need is a revolution in this house. " The author acknowledges that her book grew out of her own intense commitment to feminism. Until the late '60s, she says portentously, "I was profoundly depoliticized, unable to see my own image reflected in the history of my times." As reflected in The Romance of American Communism, that image is sympathetic, generous but not clearly focused. She takes the complexities of idealism and motivation and submerges them into a provocative...
...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
What propelled her? As much as anything, she thought, a tough childhood. Like so many female movie stars, she was the product of a broken home. She made it through high school by serving as a slavey in a private school, enduring broom-handle beatings from the headmaster's wife. Dancing was her escape - first emotionally, then literally, when she became a Shubert chorus girl...