Word: boudoirs
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Despite the bottled-in-Bond flavor, the scene actually took place in wartime Washington. It was recounted recently in London's The People by its heroine, a Mata Hari from Minnesota who worked for British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last...
...country with her equally bored husband. Such is the ambivalence of married love that the couple's passion has long since turned to hate and to Gallic variations on the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? theme -their favorite happens to be a form of boudoir bingo that has already alienated the wife's best friend and driven the husband's auto-racing teammate to suicide. This time out, they notice a lissome young schoolteacher. The wife befriends the girl, brings her home, immediately begins to preen her as a morsel to renew hubby...
Silence & Ambivalence. The professional transition that prepared her to bat in the same boudoir with Mercouri and Moreau began with the part of the pretty young wife of the dissolute count in Luchino Visconti's segment of Boccaccio '70. But the role still had a touch of the old sentimentality in it, since Director Visconti had her cry while she was collecting money from her husband for granting him his marital consortium. Orson Welles has presumably buffed her up further as the nymphomaniac Leni in his still unreleased version of Franz Kafka's The Trial...
...sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys. The duchess' crime does not pay: her rival sneaks into her boudoir and sprinkles her beauty mask with some awful acid. The segment ends with the loudest shrieks since Fay Wray met King Kong...
...baptismal ceremony in Madrid's Pardo Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last...