Word: chambermaid
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...some cases, the casinos' impact on the lives of Atlantic City residents has been direct and enormous. Redenia Gilliam-Mosee, 41, is vice president of a casino in a city where she once worked as a chambermaid. She had been moving up and away from her childhood in the Inlet, earning a Ph.D. in urban planning at Rutgers University, when Bally's Park Place Casino tapped her for the job. Now she has transformed the row house where she grew up into a modern testament to her faith in the neighborhood. Her picture hangs inside Dave's Groceries nearby...
...good as her word, but her parsimonious expenditure of language does not imply a poverty of experience. On the contrary, she tells of her early years as a chambermaid at an Adirondacks hotel and her unexpected marriage to one of the guests, a rich but supernally dull stock trader: "I read some time ago that they're building robots that think. If such robots are built they'll be just like Boris." Next comes the surprising turn in which Boris introduces his handsome young nephew into their lives, obviously engineering his wife's adultery. It works, and that is followed...
...drugstores, the familiar white boxes say Johnson & Johnson. But in court the ampersand was changed to versus, and the aim was not to relieve pain but to exacerbate it. One Johnson was Barbara ("Basia"), nee Piasecka, the Polish-born cook-chambermaid who became the third wife of J. Seward Johnson, heir to the pharmaceutical fortune. At the time of their marriage in 1971, he was 76, she was 34. The other Johnson signified J. Seward's six litigious children from his two previous marriages, excised from the old man's will shortly before his death...
...often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...
...have said to you here, which is for her too. I know you are not jealous of her." Marie-Jo wore a wedding band her father had bought her when she was eight; she was dutifully informed when Simenon began sleeping with Teresa, her mother's Italian chambermaid. When Marie-Jo killed herself, she left a request that her ashes be strewn in the garden outside the room where her father and Teresa now spend their days. Writes Simenon: "Now that you are here, have come back to your real home, the whole universe has changed in my eyes...