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Uncle and Pio
Uncle Pio acts as Camila Perichole's valet, and, in addition, " her singing-master, her coiffeur, her masseur, her reader, her errand-boy, her banker ; rumor added: her father.
The Viceroy takes her as his mistress, and she and Uncle Pio and the Archbishop of Peru and, eventually, Captain Alvarado meet frequently at midnight for dinner at the Viceroy's mansion.
Through it all, Uncle Pio is faithfully devoted, but as Camila ages and has three children by the Viceroy she focuses on becoming a lady, not an actress.
She avoids Uncle Pio, and when he talks to her she tells him to not use her stage name.
Uncle Pio sees her one night trying hopelessly to cover her pock-marked face with powder: ashamed, she refuses to ever see him again.
Camila Perichole comes to ask how she can go on, having lost her son and Uncle Pio.
However, the unimpressed washroom attendant, Uncle Pio ( Steven Geray ), keeps calling him " peasant ".
Mundson tells them he will have to kill them both, but Uncle Pio manages to fatally stab him in the back.
Uncle Pio finally credits Johnny for being a true gentleman, while insisting that he had killed Mundson.
* Steven Geray as Uncle Pio

Uncle and are
The slaves depicted in Gone with the Wind are primarily loyal house servants, such as Mammy, Pork, Prissy, and Uncle Peter, and these slaves stay on with their masters even after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 sets them free.
Great Aunt Joyce and Uncle Dick-Unseen characters, they are often mentioned by Victor and Margaret, as an aging and grim couple and Victor and Margarent dread having anything to do with them.
Three of his best known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard.
The other characters that appear in the books are her family: Miffy's parents, her Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Alice, and her Uncle Borris Bear, who appears in Miffy Goes Flying.
The film makes several indirect references to the Reconstruction era: clothing is in the newer late-Victorian style ; Uncle Remus is free to leave the plantation at will ; black field hands are sharecroppers, etc.
By this time, word has gotten out that Johnny is gone and some plantation residents, who are sent out to find him, ask if Uncle Remus has seen the boy.
However, Ginny's two older brothers, Joe and Jake — who are meant to resemble Br ' er Fox and Br ' er Bear " a big Bubba " from Uncle Remus's stories, for one is slick and fast-talking, while the other is big and a little slow — are not friendly at all ; they constantly bully Ginny and Johnny.
While most foreign releases of the film are almost direct translations of the English title ( Canción del Sur in Spanish, Mélodie du Sud in French, Melodie Van Het Zuiden in Dutch, Sången om södern in Swedish, A Canção do Sul in Portuguese, and Etelän laulu in Finnish ), the German title Onkel Remus ' Wunderland translates to " Uncle Remus ' Wonderland ", the Italian title I Racconti Dello Zio Tom translates to " The Stories of Uncle Tom ", and the Norwegian title Onkel Remus forteller translates roughly to " Storyteller Uncle Remus.
There are a number of secondary and minor characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature.
Modern scholars and readers have criticized the book for what are seen as condescending racist descriptions of the book's black characters, especially with regard to the characters ' appearances, speech, and behavior, as well as the passive nature of Uncle Tom in accepting his fate.
Among the stereotypes of blacks in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the " happy darky " ( in the lazy, carefree character of Sam ); the light-skinned tragic mulatto as a sex object ( in the characters of Eliza, Cassy, and Emmeline ); the affectionate, dark-skinned female mammy ( through several characters, including Mammy, a cook at the St. Clare plantation ); the pickaninny stereotype of black children ( in the character of Topsy ); the Uncle Tom, an African American who is too eager to please white people.
Among these novels are two books titled Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is ( one by W. L.
One night, Uncle Charlie confronts his niece, admitting that he is the man the police are after.
Formal innovation characterised Mon oncle d ' Amérique ( My American Uncle ) ( 1980 ) in which the theories of the neurobiologist Henri Laborit about animal behaviour are juxtaposed with three interwoven fictional stories ; and a further counterpoint to the fictional characters is provided by the inclusion of film extracts of the classic French film actors with whom they identify.
Rhetorical novels, like Uncle Tom's Cabin, are dominantly centrifugal, stressing the thematic connection of the stories and characters to the social order.
The people of Funkadelica are called Funkateers ( as are P Funk fans ) and are led by Uncle Jam.
But the citizens are most proud of the then young men of military age, who ALL volunteered and were accepted in the service of Uncle Sam.
Guido, Uncle Eliseo and Giosuè are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp on Giosuè's birthday.

Uncle and fourth
Uncle Remus breaks the fourth wall as he rushes to join the group.
After the book's success, Uncle John's 2nd Bathroom Reader was published in 1989, with a third and a fourth book being added to the series in the subsequent years.

Uncle and fifth
In 1991, the band released their fifth album, and first for a major label, Uncle Anesthesia.
Early in the fifth season 30, 1969, Jeannie is called upon by her Uncle Sully ( Jackie Coogan ) to become queen of their family's native country, Basenji.
Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again ( Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad ), and Reginald (" Pongo ") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew ( and Drones Club member ) has every right to be petrified.
( A horse who would go on to greatness came in fifth that day: Hall of Famer Ten Broeck owned by Uncle John Harper.
The fifth chapter of The Other, " Retreat ", Peter, Mary Jane and Aunt May go to Latveria to use Dr. Doom's Time Machine to see past scenes in his life, like the day Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker left Peter in the care of his Uncle Ben and Aunt May.
* Billy Bell-" Uncle Bill ", Mike's uncle, is the truck driver for the Holmes tool truck ( itself introduced in the fifth season to replace a series of trailers ).

Uncle and people
in Los Angeles with Uncle Jam's Army D. J. ing dances as large as the L. A. Sports Arena with 10, 000 people.
Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam ( the male personification of the American people ), Columbia ( the female personification of American values ), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his art.
The chief deity of the Qatabanians was Amm, or " Uncle " and the people called themselves the " children of Amm ".
The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.
Uncle Remus takes the dog in and delights Johnny and his friends with the fable of Br ' er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, stressing that people shouldn't go messing around with something they have no business with in the first place.
Uncle Tom's Cabin outraged people in the American South.
Eric Lott, in his book Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production, estimates that at least three million people saw these plays, ten times the book's first-year sales.
Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.
He responded, “ All Vietnamese people are the children of Uncle Hồ .” When asked again about the rumor in January 2002 by a Time Asia reporter, he denied he is Hồ's son and stated that his father was named Nông Văn Lai and his mother Hoàng Thị Nhị.
Janna's Uncle Enyos ( Vincent Schiavelli ) comes to remind her of her duty to her people and he expresses his disappointment that, as a woman from a group of people wary of technology and intermarriage with outsiders, she has become a computer teacher in a relationship with a non-Gypsy.
The colorful " Uncle Earl " ( so-named because of his relatives, including nephew and U. S. Senator Russell Long ) once joked that one day the people of Louisiana would elect " good government, and they won't like it!
Ozma invited several people from the outside world to come live in the Land of Oz, most notably Dorothy Gale, The Wizard, Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, Betsy Bobbin, Trot, Button Bright and Cap ' n Bill.
He's also said that " many people thought that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was and still is perceived as racist, despite being the probable artistic genesis of emotional support against slavery in the 19th century.
There, she discovers that her Uncle Mycroft has created the Prose Portal, which allows people to enter works of fiction.
They state that Baum and Denslow did not simply invent the Lion, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Yellow Brick Road, Silver Slippers, cyclone, monkeys, Emerald City, little people, Uncle Henry, passenger balloons, witches and the wizard.
On the nurture side, Christopher regularly associated with people who sold drugs ( such as Uncle Junior and Mikey Palmice ), who abused drugs ( such as Brendan Filone and Ralph Cifaretto ), and who used a variety of methods of self-medication and escapism ( such as Tony Soprano's gluttony and Janice Soprano's flirtations with various religions ).
Tony, although reasonably gracious in defeat, was embarrassed at having been defeated in a brawl ( especially by Bobby of all people ) and frequently asserted to Bobby, Janice, and Carmela that he would have won the fight had he not slipped on the rug nor undergone such physical impotence after being shot by Uncle Junior.
She used Gordon again, this time as her irascible boss ( and brother-in-law ) Harrison Otis ' Uncle Harry ' Carter at an employment agency that specialized in unusual jobs for unusual people.
Uncle Martin refuses to reveal any of his Martian traits to people other than Tim, to avoid publicity ( or panic ), and Tim agrees to keep Martin's identity a secret while the Martian attempts to repair his ship.
Uncle Martin has various unusual powers: he can raise from his head two retractable antennae and become invisible ; he is telepathic and can read and influence minds ; he can levitate objects with the motion of his finger ; he can communicate with animals ; freeze people or objects and he can also speed himself ( and other people ) up to do work.

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