Word: lover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great artists are emotional idiots savants, charting the terra incognita of human experience by going over the edge. It is a lovely delusion. It excuses so many excesses and failures, gives rise to so many cautionary legends. George Gordon, Lord Byron incarnated one such fable: the poet as demon lover. He was dead at 36. Joe Orton, the English playwright who died in 1967, lived out another. He cruised danger as if it were a cute trick in a public gents', and was murdered at 34 -- for love! Nice work, guys. By your example you spread the word...
...mysteriously rich, showers his wife and sisters with gifts, but the women are unhappy because Julian's newfound independence upsets the balance of his relationships with each of them. Lily's anxiety is compounded by the presence of her estranged mother Albertine (Katherina Urso) and her mother's lover, Henry (Lisa Garmire...
Understandably, Pubis Angelical is a fun book to read. Its three distinct stories are often exciting, as the actress glides from life-threatening escapade to blissful romantic encounter, as W218 runs off to her forbidden lover. Unexpected twists to the plot keep the reader on his toes. And the vague relationships and incomplete developments of so much of the novel maintain an atmosphere of suspense. The reader cannot help but wonder how the characters are related, who is in love with whom, who is a spy, why the age of thirty is so significant, how the dead have come back...
...whole, Pubis Angelical does not live up to the expectations created by the skillful writing and the intimations of impending revelation. Sometimes the recurring plot elements seem to repetitive, a passionate lover after passionate lover turns out to be a spy; sometimes the exaggerated characters become only tiresome stereotypes. Some passages can be relatively tedious, such as the tired political debates relived over and over in Ana's hospital room the repeated philosophizing on ideal relationships between men and women. Dialogue often tends to be melodramatic...
What ever happened to Yvonne De Carlo? You remember her: the torrid brunet who started as a harem handmaiden and by dint of hard work, moxie and what her lover Howard Hughes called a "nice set of lavalieres" became queen of costume dramas in the '40s and '50s. For one thing, she became an autobiographer who, in the great tradition, bares just enough to keep it interesting but not enough to worry the censors. Her offscreen memoirs offer a short course in studio politics and a long list of amours, including Hughes, Robert Taylor, Robert Stack, the Shah of Iran...