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  • n  a second staircase at the rear of a building
  • s  secret and sly or sordid
    backstairs gossip
    his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard
    backstairs intimacies

  • Leger worked in a semisecret office up a backstairs in the Quai d'Orsay.
  • Because what we're talking about are the backstairs crawling putzes who shouldn't be in the press section in the first place, and are contributing to the larger process of regular .
  • The Assembly therefore had to elect a President last week, chose Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, who played an important backstairs role in promoting the Hoare .
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    Occasionally moving, sweeping in ambition yet often haphazard in execution, "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is an epic that more closely resembles a made-for-TV movie or miniseries, albeit one from the high-minded heyday of TV movies, the '70s. Think "Backstairs at the White House," if your memory goes that far back.
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