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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Hostess"”.
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Whoring the mermaid: the study of South Korean hostess film (1974-1982)
… of prostitute women in South Korean Hostess (ho-sŭ-t'e-sŭ’: a euphemism for prostitutes or bar girls in the Korean context of the 1970s and 1980s) films. This body of films is not only characterized for the exploitive employment of female sexuality but more importantly for the theme …
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Narrating Hospitality: Salons in French Fiction, 1789–1848
… feminist deconstructions of the figure of the hostess in Western narrative. Through chapters on three authors – Mme de Staël, Stendhal, and Balzac – the thesis maintains a focus on the salon as signifier of hospitality’s inevitable failures and contradictions, counter to its more usual …
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A Comparison of the Styles of Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny, and Chopin as Seen in Hexaméron
… commission by the Princess Christina Belgiojoso, hostess of a Parisian salon. The work took the form of a set of variations, with the theme selected from the duet "Suoni la tromba" from Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Puritani. Each composer contributed one variation and Liszt, serving as a …
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California City
… “Up Birch Creek,†a 30-year-old restaurant hostess returns to the place where her family homesteaded. In “Tree’d,†a young girl goes mountain lion hunting with strangers. In “Married,†a young married woman begins to lose her mind after some pencil lead becomes lodged in the skin …
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California City
… “Up Birch Creek,†a 30-year-old restaurant hostess returns to the place where her family homesteaded. In “Tree’d,†a young girl goes mountain lion hunting with strangers. In “Married,†a young married woman begins to lose her mind after some pencil lead becomes lodged in the skin …
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Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State
… system. Devenport’s roles as poet, playwright, hostess of a literary salon and wife of education minister and author Joseph O’Neill placed her at the centre of intellectual debate during the years of the Irish Free State. Her poetry and verse-plays appeared in Irish literary magazines throughout …
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The Conflict Between Thomas Becket and Henry II
… seems to have attracted the notice of their hostess; for when the next morning came, she told her husband that she dreamed during the night that one of the new-comers had covered the parish church with his vestments. The good man, who did not know who they were, said, "Perhaps it portends …
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Manly Vice and Virtu: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan
… activities: deep-sea spearfishing, carousing at hostess clubs, and high-stakes gambling at mahjong, each of which my informants understood to be subversive of societal norms. Methodologically, I structure my examination of each activity around an adaptation of classic ritual analysis--namely …
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Mexican-Born Immigrant Decision-Making About Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes
… expected role/behavioral norms, eating hostess-prepared food, and hiding the socially-stigmatized diagnosis took precedence over positive DSM (+DSM). Food’s smell/taste, had emotive meaning. Presence at frequent socially-required events and desire to “enjoy today” were powerful …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… Marguerite Inman Davis assumed the life of a hostess and pursued her talents as an equestrienne and gardener. As first lady of Virginia during World War I, Marguerite Davis consciously set an example for women·of the state and nation to enter war work. She volunteered, as president of the …
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A Theater in Berlin
… of being together. The character of the host or hostess is unveiled not by way of the objects in the environment but via the representation or reflection of him or herself projected into these objects. The reception is in this way an attribute narrated by man's presence, emphasizing as …
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The Japanese Art of Listening An ethnographic investigation into the role of the listener
… in Japan through ethnographic observation of hostesses (escorts) and listening volunteers, and an analysis of self-help literature on listening. At night clubs in Tokyo, hostesses, who are famous for being good listeners, use listening as a streetwise skill. This enables them to stay in …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
… the role of participant-observer who doubles as hostess and spectator to keep the Palliser series on track; and Will Ladislaw is fashioned as a conduit between archaic and emergent modes of producing and circulating print culture. Each novelist, I maintain, owes his or her enduring reputations in …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… the garden of Racconigi also attributed to its hostess: Princess Giuseppina. Admittedly, the interest of the owner determines the appearance of the garden in a large extent, even did more influence than a designer, both in architecture and garden. Thus, when the attempt at researching the …