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...busier than anybody else in showing how deucedly come he is, and no doubt that's the way roman comedy really was played; I however was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and kendra stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an pleasant situation...
...double the basic wage. Even at that, housewives are combing the desperately poor regions of Sicily and Sardinia for the underprivileged, down to eight-year-old orphans who cook while standing on kitchen stools. Classified ads plead for servants with various blandishments, including medical care and pensions to a maid's parents...
...only partly for the change. More basically, sociologists blame that well-known "revolution of expectations," which has now reached Italian youth. What they see at the movies and on television leads those on the economic fringes to want more out of life. Says one Italian householder: "The unhappier our maid gets, the more we let her look at television. And the more she looks at television, the unhappier she gets...
Many domestics are working only as a temporary expedient to better themselves on the installment plan. One American housewife in Rome recently discovered this the hard way when she invited an important Italian couple to dinner. No food appeared. Out in the kitchen, the housewife found the maid in tears. "I can't serve tonight," she sobbed. "You see, I'm buying an apartment, and your guests live next door to it. If they see me waiting on the table, they'll never accept me socially...
...board and social security benefits, a housewife can hire an inexperienced Spanish girl who speaks no French at all. This language barrier is playing hob with Parisian social life. Many a telephoned invitation gets no farther than "Madame no está. No se. Tarde, tarde." CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish for cat; gateau is French for cake...