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Nina convinces Thomas to allow her to take back her role. Towards the end of the ballet's second act, Nina is distracted by a hallucination and loses her balance during a lift, causing a male dancer to drop her, infuriating Thomas. Nina returns to her dressing room and finds Lily preparing to play Odile.
Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson (Alexandra Katharine Climpson in Unnatural Death; also called "Kitty") is a minor character in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. She appears in two novels: Unnatural Death (1927) and Strong Poison (1930), and is mentioned in Gaudy Night (1935) and Busman's Honeymoon (1937).
Sayers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Sayers, New Zealand athlete; Ben Sayers, early professional golfer; Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer; Edna Sayers (1912–1986), Australian cyclist; Edward Sayers (aviator) (1897–1918), English World War I flying ace; Edward Sayers (doctor) (1902–1985 ...
Nina Sayers Annette Bening: The Kids Are All Right: Dr. Nicole "Nic" Allgood Nicole Kidman: Rabbit Hole: Becca Corbett Kim Hye-ja: Mother: Mother Jennifer Lawrence: Winter's Bone: Ree Dolly 2011: Tilda Swinton: We Need to Talk About Kevin: Eva Khatchadourian Kirsten Dunst: Melancholia: Justine Elizabeth Olsen: Martha Marcy May Marlene: Martha ...
Natalie Portman - Black Swan as Nina Sayers; Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3; Best Cast: The Kids Are All Right; Best Cinematography Black Swan - Matthew Libatique; Best Debut Director: John Wells - The Company Men; Best Director: David Fincher - The Social Network; Best Documentary Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop; Best Film: The Social Network
Dorothy Sayers' co-author, under the pseudonym of Robert Eustace, was Dr Eustace Barton, a physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers. Barton suggested to Sayers the scientific theme crucial to the novel's dénouement, which concerns the difference between a naturally produced organic compound and the corresponding synthetic material, and ...
On 1 January 1926, the date specified by Sayers, two important property statutes came into force in England: the Law of Property Act 1925 and the Administration of Estates Act 1925. The latter, corresponding most closely with the ‘Property Act’ of the novel, swept away the old rules on intestacy [ 8 ] and specified by way of a six-point ...
Writing in 1990 Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club so stuffy that its dead members cannot be differentiated from the ...