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The play opens with breast-pumping Lori Brooke Shields/Andrea Savage, a less than satisfied, stay at home mom, patiently instructing the nanny in the proper use of the telephone's speaker feature.
Lauren Selman: Kumble Plays With the Politics of Preschool Lauren Selman 2011
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The play opens with breast-pumping Lori Brooke Shields/Andrea Savage, a less than satisfied, stay at home mom, patiently instructing the nanny in the proper use of the telephone's speaker feature.
Lauren Selman: Kumble Plays With the Politics of Preschool Lauren Selman 2011
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The play opens with breast-pumping Lori Brooke Shields/Andrea Savage, a less than satisfied, stay at home mom, patiently instructing the nanny in the proper use of the telephone's speaker feature.
Lauren Selman: Kumble Plays With the Politics of Preschool Lauren Selman 2011
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The play opens with breast-pumping Lori Brooke Shields/Andrea Savage, a less than satisfied, stay at home mom, patiently instructing the nanny in the proper use of the telephone's speaker feature.
Lauren Selman: Kumble Plays With the Politics of Preschool Lauren Selman 2011
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We prefer to grimace in the telephone's direction and loudly complain that someone actually had the gall to dial our number.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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We prefer to grimace in the telephone's direction and loudly complain that someone actually had the gall to dial our number.
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There are several explanations: better early detection of pregnancy complications, fear of malpractice suits for not having performed the surgery in deliveries that ended tragically, the idea among women that a C-section is somehow more civilized than a natural birth and the desire of doctors to maintain a large number of patients without the telephone's ringing at 3 every morning.
The New Latin Labor 2007
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Indeed, he was celebrating his short life with such passion - and at such a volume - that as she headed for the bathroom and her morning shower, she nearly missed hearing the telephone's ring.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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But already the man's strong forefinger had come down on the telephone's cradle.
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And as she woke, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, before she was even aware of the telephone's bell, she felt scared.
Blast From the Past Elton, Ben 1998
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