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...safe to say that Auguste Rodin, one of the pivotal figures in the history of art, would have arrived at greatness even if he had never encountered Camille Claudel, the young sculptor who became his mistress and acolyte. By the time they met, in 1882, he was already in full possession of his powers. The real question is whether Claudel would have become what she did without Rodin, who fostered her gifts and then, perhaps, overwhelmed them. What she became, for a while, was a sculptor of some consequence. After that she devolved into an increasingly erratic talent, struggling...
...brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin had a longtime mistress, Rose Beuret, and a whole string of others on the side, his affair with Claudel would have an intensity unlike any others. After the sex they could talk about Bernini and Donatello...
...Will are two reprobate Confederate soldiers who adopt different colors, blue or gray, as the rules of survival require. Pearl is a half-caste slave girl shrewdly contemplating the horizons of her new freedom while serving for a while in the disguise of a Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with Sherman's forces. The far better-composed Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Georgia judge, rediscovers herself as a Union battlefield nurse while falling pointlessly in love with the coldly brilliant field surgeon Wrede Sartorius...
...Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood...
...know there will be another diet soon enough, whether it's The 3-Hour Diet regimen, which involves snacking, or the French Women Don't Get Fat approach, which involves eating a quick, light meal without your husband so he has time to see his mistress. Whichever diet it is, people will swear that it finally holds the solution. And they will believe it. It's part of the optimism Americans have about progress. It's the same attitude that allowed people to pour money into the Google IPO and watch Showtime TV shows. So I have to admit that...