Word: valet
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...Horvath's career, and his reputation has | re-emerged only since the late 1960s. Figaro imagines the principal characters of Beaumarchais's 18th century farce The Marriage of Figaro thrust into a postrevolutionary modern world. Count Almaviva is a tyrant on the run, his wife a conniving businesswoman, the valet Figaro a nationalist longing to return to his newly free homeland, and his lady's-maid wife Susanna a loyalist clinging to the old social order...
...offspring, then at himself. Cuba is less angry about drug use--he snorts cocaine all the time--than at his son's turning to anyone but him for life's experiences. An eerie, subliminally sexual bond of dominance pervades this womanless household, with the boy serving as a submissive valet, an Edith Bunkerish wife. Macchio, in a brilliant stage debut, sustains that disquieting relationship. Yet he renders Teddy as a talented and basically normal kid, reconciled to the fact that his father may love him but will never understand...
...move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
Some of the staff have left of their own volition. Alan Fisher was hired as a palace butler after having served in that capacity for Bing Crosby. "They are wonderful people," says Fisher, who left in 1984, "but incredibly boring." Stephen Barry, Charles' valet of twelve years, left to write what was billed as a tell-all book about his years with the prince. The book, Royal Service, disproved the adage that no man is a hero to his valet by depicting Charles as a cross between Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Bertrand Russell...
This was proven last year in the spring, when an old, grey-haired man hobbled slowly and painfully into the store. He introduced himself as John F. Kennedy's valet, who used to come monthly to Keezer's to buy clothes for "the young master...