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Margaret's affair with Llewellyn ended not long after. But eventually the British press and public softened toward her. Compared with the present generation of royals, her misadventures started to seem quaint. By that time, the years of heavy smoking and single-malt Scotch had begun to take their toll, but by that time too, she had lived a vivid life. It tells you something that she called her house on Mustique Les Jolie Eaux (Happy Waters). No doubt she was a woman made miserable by the confines of royalty. She also made merry within them...
...possible deception when Hanssen denied stripper Priscilla Galey's claim that he had tried to recruit her as a spy in 1990-91. Hanssen said the attraction was purely physical and explained the needle's jitters as the nervousness of a conservative Roman Catholic when asked about his extramarital affair. But Hanssen is also suspected of being less than candid about other aspects of his 21-year career as a Russian mole, according to senior U.S. officials. If he is shown to have been untruthful, his plea arrangement could fall apart and he could wind up going to trial...
...rest of the cast, most playing fairly irregular sorts, address women’s concerns including suppression of sexuality, love affair cycles and conservatism...
...college kids in the age of the Internet, the endless search for the perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...resented having our tax money going to support her hedonistic lifestyle." Margaret smoked - up to 60 cigarettes day at one point - and drank heavily. Her name was linked with a variety of men, in particular Roderick Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior with whom she had an affair that lasted several years...