Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PRINCESS OF WALES FLEW off to Barbuda last week and, for the brief duration of a winter break, left behind her sons William and Harry, her estranged husband Charles, his mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles--and the stormy issue of royal divorce. In the Caribbean, perhaps, she set her sights on the "clarity" she recently told a TV audience she so desperately wants...
Mickey Sabbath is a washed-up street performer--for a brief long-ago moment the darling of the New York agitprop scene, now self-exiled in New Hampshire, financially dependent upon his equally bitter second wife. With the death of his Croatian mistress, Sabbath loses the thread of his miserable life, and sets off on a micro-odyssey with no real object...
...FEDERICO FELLINI'S 1961 FILM La Dolce Vita, the mistress of the journalist played by Marcello Mastroianni castigates him and his photographer companion Paparazzo by telling them, "You're a lot of vultures! Don't you respect anything?" But even the celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi...
Nora Dickey and Willard each take on two roles--Dickey as the father's mistress and a girl in the mental hospital with a crush on Bishop, Willard as Bishop's father and psychiatrist. These roles are largely instrumental, and they are executed well; Willard, constrained by a stereotyped character of the father, achieves some genuinely dramatic scenes with McCarthy in the mental hospital. Both of Dickey's roles call for broad comedy, which she performs expertly. As she proved in last year's "Goodnight Desdemona," Dickey has a knack for zaniness, and she is funny almost every time...
Consider: the former head of a major U.N. agency routinely charged the organization for business trips already paid for by individual governments. A high official at U.N. headquarters in New York City is promoting the career of his mistress in a well-paid U.N. job. A key adviser at one of the U.N.'s most controversial agencies is said to be an alcoholic too seldom sober to do much work. And the head of a worldwide agency is reputed to have bought his job by handing out cash--bundles provided by his national government stuffed into a suitcase--to delegates...