Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...
...Stockholm's fashionable shopping center, he met Baroness Sigrid ("Siri") Wrangel, an angel with Nordic frosting, looking as sweetly innocent as if caviar would not melt in her mouth. It was love...
Devil in the Flesh. French sensitivity lavished on a story of illicit wartime love (TIME, March...
...passion, he wrote her: "Forgive me!!!!!! Sunday morning. I will, I will be mad. Now I've talked about it all. Who to? To the spring, to the oaks, to the willows, to the anemones, and the bells sang and the lark said: 'Carry on!' ... I love you, I love you, I love...
Strindberg was the son of a shipping agent and a servant girl; his dominant childhood memories were the sound of nearby church bells and a gnawing fear of practically everything. He violently loved his mother, described his feelings as "incest of the soul." Yet, as with almost all the women in his life, his love for her was tinged with jealousy and hate. When she died and his father married the family housekeeper, he cast himself in the role of Hamlet...