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Recent Examples of padroneInstead, much of this awkward English-language period piece focuses on peasants’ struggle to overthrow padrone control just after the First World War.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023
There's Mary and Joseph and an innkeeper, but there's also a whole chorus of angels, a barn of animals, and four babies playing baby Jesus on a rotation.
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Sophie Carson,
Journal Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
In the last fiscal year, from June 2023 to June 2024, the total revenue was around $381,000, and the innkeeper’s salary was close to $139,000.
Among them: Did Wood continue to fire his weapon after shooting Castellanos, striking one of the bar patrons?
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Charles Rabin and,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
But according to countless home bakers and thousands of patrons of the Barefoot Contessa store in the Hamptons, the search can stop at Ina Garten’s Outrageous Brownies.
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Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Mar. 2025
Fragile and nearly coming apart at the seams, Blanche seems barely able to get ahold of herself even after she’s let in the tiny French Quarter apartment by her sister’s landlord (Janet Etuk).
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
The legislation also allows landlords to file eviction notices in precincts adjacent to where their property is located.
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