Word: valete
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...weakest of all; Garcin is a terribly tormented person, capable of the utmost barbarity toward his wife, and at the same time capable of a crippling self-doubt. Little of this is apparent in Mr. Sweeney's portrayal. Ms. Weeks' direction at times is good--the scenes with the Valet at the very beginning of the play, for example, are played with a dash of puckish cynicism, and work well. But the production throughout is marred with sloppy blocking. Meaningless turns and faltering steps abound; the scene at the end of the play when the characters finally realize the permanence...
...Although they were more or less certain of Powell, there obviously remained some question about the final ticket that the President would present. Some time between midnight and 8 a.m., Nixon tape-recorded a draft of the TV speech he was to deliver. He gave the tape to his valet, Manolo Sanchez, who took it to Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods. She typed one copy and returned it to Nixon. The President spent much of Thursday alone in his sanctum in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House, working on the single existing copy...
...hero to his valet, per-haps no woman can be a heroine to her secretary. That, at least, might be one lesson to be derived from this colorful, bitchy, bizarre biography of the late Helena Rubinstein, written by the rather unctuous Irishman who served as her factotum for nearly 14 years...
...were really nostalgic, you would remember that until Dec. 7, 1941, the Green Hornet's faithful Filipino valet Kato was the Green Hornet's faithful Japanese valet Kato...
...radio stations have brought back the serials of the '30s and '40s, morality plays for two generations of American children. Once again Lament Cranston, the Shadow, knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, and once again the Green Hornet, accompanied by his faithful Filipino valet Kato, buzzes off in the Black Beauty to "hunt the biggest of all game: public enemies who try to destroy our America...