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Recent Examples of senoritaLove the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 19 Dec. 2019 Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.—SI.com, 6 June 2019 The cakes are filled with margarita butter cream and covered with vanilla butter cream and decorated like a pretty Mexican senorita’s skirt.—Erica Boniface, The Know, 2 May 2017
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
Though set in Ghost Town with period garb, there are modern flourishes, such as tongue-in-cheek nods to the theme park’s attractions and a damsel in distress who ultimately proves to be anything but.
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Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
After two seasons of Peter chasing around Rose Larkin, Isabel proves to be more than a distressed damsel, solidifying journalism’s crucial place in holding power accountable and aiding governmental investigations at large.
Morse wheeled his runner back in seven days after a last-race maiden victory of five lengths on the Arkansas Derby undercard.
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Bob Wisener,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2026
This British production from Hammer Films and director Roy Ward Baker showcases moon maidens, old-fashioned lunar shootouts, buggy chases, and an ex-astronaut turned mercenary salvager trying to snag a 6000-pound sapphire asteroid from orbit for a billionaire industrialist.
Shot in France and partially underwritten by a French production company, Jude’s interpretation transposes the maid’s experience to that of a Romanian immigrant.
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Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
As Cio-Cio-San’s maid Suzuki, Kayla Nanto was less matronly of presence and voice than some.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Apr. 2026
Another girl, Donna Jo, apparently naked on a back-yard lawn, holds several small, round pieces of fruit, still on their leafy branch, clasped to her chest like a trophy.
The show follows Wiig’s wannabe patrician Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, who is hell-bent on becoming the belle of 1960’s Palm Beach by elbowing her way into the upper echelons of Florida’s most exclusive beach club, the Palm Royale.
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Jack Dunn,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
In a market with a ton of teams with money to spend and not an abundance of high-level talent to spend it on, the no-frills Linderbaum could soon become the belle of the free-agent ball.