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...Mick's first chat with Jenkins, he accuses the old man of "stinking the place out," and he ends his final diatribe by saying, "And to put the old tin lid on it, you stink from arsehole to breakfast time." Wendy Craig, as the young employer's upper-class fiancée in The Servant, turns her sneering attention to the new butler (Dirk Bogarde) and asks him, "Do you use a deodorant? Do you think you go well with the color scheme?" The father in The Homecoming calls his new lady guest "a stinking pox-ridden slut" as well...
...That survival instinct remains. Luo and her family put aside nearly every cent they earn. Her fiancé, Yang Yong, leaves early each morning to find work on reconstruction projects. "Even when he's sick he works," she says. "It will be even harder in the winter, but we have to live, so he goes." Although unemployment is as high as 80% in some areas of the Sichuan disaster zone, Yang says he doesn't have much difficultly finding work. Indeed, the extent of rebuilding still required means he can expect construction jobs for years to come. His 50-year...
...Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, toothpaste, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her 28-year-old fiancé had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg, which they had just withdrawn from the bank. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says, as she stands inside her store wearing a puffy orange jacket to ward off the chill. "No one else in the same building made it out, but somehow...
...Daley's chief of staff, she hired Michelle Obama (then Michelle Robinson) to work as assistant to the mayor - but not before re-assuring Michelle's fiancé, Barack Obama, that the job was right...
Matt and Holly, my brother and his fiancée, are hoping the worst will be over by 6 p.m. tomorrow. They've called the wedding guests who are in town and invited them to a chapel in northwest Houston for their marriage ceremony. Matt is optimistic and determined. "If it's just us, the priest and a tugboat, we're getting married," he says. I hope they...