Word: spinster
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...things weren't complicated enough, Figaro has another enemy to deal with: the old spinster Marcellina (Jennifer Little), who has loaned him money on the condition that he marry her if he can't pay it back. The Count seizes on Marcellina's claim as a way of delaying Figaro's marriage, giving the Count more time to woo Susanna...
...Broadway revival of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 melodrama, itself adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, speaks with the confident simplicity of all-around excellence: skillful direction by Gerald Gutierrez, inventive sets and lighting, and an icy, crystalline performance by Cherry Jones as the triumphantly loveless spinster...
...PAID ANNE SCHEIBER MUCH mind when she was alive. If anyone at all noticed her outside her Manhattan studio apartment, the frugal spinster, a mere five feet tall, was always dressed in the same cheap black coat and hat. She never bought a stick of furniture. She rarely bought a newspaper. But she did read one diligently. Every so often she would venture out to the local library where she could read the Wall Street Journal without paying for it. And on her little noticed journeys outside her apartment, she would also visit her stockbroker. When she died...
...chef is not without cunning outside the kitchen. His children are not aware of that, nor can they see that his meals are metaphors for love; they see them as a form of torture added to their other torments. The eldest, Jia-Jen (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a spinster schoolteacher, pining for a lost love but beginning to moon over the cute new gym teacher. The youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is rebelling by working in a fast-food restaurant and taking a lover who reads Dostoyevsky and rides a motorcycle. In the middle is Jia-Chien (Chien-Lien...
...years later to marry Esteban herself and begin her life as matriarch of the Trueba family. the grown Clara (Meryl Streep) and much older Esteban (Jeremy Irons with another layer of make-up) move to Tres Marias, a restored country estate, where they are joined by Esteban's mysterious spinster sister, Ferula (Glenn Close...