But within its 320 square meters, or nearly 3,500 square feet, Mrs. Rooney Duval saw the architectural equivalent of a carte blanche in a city filled with traditional Haussmann residences and what she calls their "flat" interiors.
During his early New York years, his mother came to live with him for a time — she was an aspiring actress and a poetical soul, something of a Blanche DuBois — and when she returned to his father Brando confessed that he had a nervous breakdown.
I really wanted to get to the underlying tensions, unspoken desires and fish-out-of-water aspect of Blanche's character.
He imported Maria to Florida under the assumed name Miss Bow to watch Tallulah Bankhead make a hash of Blanche in a 1955 production that was being tried out at the Coconut Grove Theatre before coming to New York, and for which Maria had unsuccessfully auditioned as Stella.
Stricken with guilt, she then makes it her business to find out who this woman was – as a doctor, she has a kind of carte blanche to go around asking questions.
I've noticed it a lot with swearing: while Brits of both genders will be quite happy, among friends, to use the word 'fuck' – as a verb, a noun and adjective or an adverb – a surprising number of Americans blanche at the idea.
In a sense we're asking a lot from them you know it's a sort of carte blanche yes.
Months later, in a fit of conscience, Blanche finds P'tit at the baby farm run by the notorious Doctress Amelia Hoffman (a real-life villainess who never did jail time for her crimes).
The acceptance of student indebtedness as the "norm" of medical school has provided a kind of carte blanche for robust tuition increases.
He is the son of Mary Ann VanPoelvoorde of La Tour Blanche, France, and Kemal Kocak of Bodrum, Turkey.
