Word: adulteresses
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...Bartleboom combs the beach with his measuring stick and Plasson paints on a white canvas with seawater, the reader can only laugh at Baricco's overly solemn attempts at symbolism. Of all the characters, Ann Deveria has the greatest potential for sparking the reader's interest. She is an adulteress whose husband has sent her to the ocean to "cool the passions" and forget her lover. Unfortunately, she remains underdeveloped along with the rest of the characters and only comes across as stale and unreal. Then there is the 15-year-old girl trying to cure a strange psychological malady...
...divorce, she married Jackson; however, they found out some time later that the certificate of divorce was not legal, and therefore their marriage was invalid. John Quincy Adams, Jackson's opponent, took full advantage of this circumstance to denounce his rival as a man who lived with an adulteress. Some thought these discourses intruded too much into the personal life of Jackson. But many denounced Jackson for his seeming immorality...
...listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save her lover from the gallows in Jagger's sepulchral rendering of the title tune...
Unsurprisingly, she is an incompetent adulteress. Her advances are rebuffed, except by the dentist, with whom she has an unsatisfying (and unprotected) sexual encounter. Suitably chastened, she seeks in an orgy of expiation to redeem herself by returning to the long-suffering Edward, who as further evidence of his perfection, takes her back. A rapturous reconciliation on his desk proves that faculty offices do have some charm...
...dampened her "visceral, honest, unshaped and uncontrolled responses," the American wife begins to feel like a shadow or zombie. To retrieve her personhood, she understandably takes a lover. Suddenly, she feels alive again. Simply negotiating the "lunacy of the logistics" as she outwits her husband and children makes the adulteress feel "at once frighteningly out of control and, strangely, very much in command...