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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).
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 ...
Regarded in the Christian world as something of a classic, it is often quoted. [citation needed]In The Mind of the Maker, one of her most profound works, Sayers contends that the creative process in art works in ways that correspond to the dynamic relation among the three Persons of the Trinity in Christian theology—and that the activity of one illuminates the activity of the other.
Murder Must Advertise is a 1933 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the eighth in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.Most of the action of the novel takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was familiar as she had herself worked as an advertising copywriter until 1931.
The shooter is revealed to be Nina Frost, the York County, Maine, Assistant District Attorney, and the defendant is Father Glen Szyszynski, a priest at a church that Nina's family attends. At the time of the shooting, Nina believed that Szyszynski had sexually abused her five-year-old son, Nathaniel, after laboratory tests confirmed that ...
Nina Revoyr (born June 12, 1969) is an American novelist and children's advocate, best known for her award-winning 2003 novel Southland. [1] She is also executive vice president and chief operating officer of Children's Institute, Inc., which provides clinical, youth development, family support and early childhood services to children and families affected by trauma, violence and poverty in ...
Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina (Russian: Нине́ль Серге́евна Кула́гина, born Ninel Mikhaylova [1] [2]) (30 July 1926 – 11 April 1990) was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis. Academic research of her phenomenon was conducted in the USSR for the last 20 years of ...