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...what he was after in one of his first major Tahitian canvases, Manao Tupapau, also called The Spirit of the Dead Watches. The girl lying uneasily on the yellow bedding is his 14-year-old mistress Tehamana. Gauguin had returned home one night to find her stretched on their bed in terror of the darkness, which Tahitians believed was populated by spirits. The seated figure brooding at left is one of them. Over the bed are the starbursts of imaginary flowers that Gauguin contrived to suggest the nighttime phosphorescence that the islanders believed was the visible sign of those spirits...
...Bollywood's turn. In director Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool, Macbeth has been turned into a Bombay Mob hit man tempted to kill his sadistic don for the don's disloyal mistress?the incarnation of Lady Macbeth. It may be possible to imagine three cackling witches in India's teeming megalopolis, but Bhardwaj chooses to replace them with a pair of corrupt, soothsaying cops who get their jollies playing all sides in the bloody gangland rivalries...
...when she was about 12 (her people keep no birth records), she was kidnapped from her village in the remote mountains of Sudan and sold as a slave to an Arab family in Khartoum. She spent the next seven years in ceaseless drudgery. Houseguests groped her freely, and her mistress beat her regularly and even burned her with a hot ladle for serving eggs fried instead of poached. In a nightmare parody of bourgeois house pride, Nazer's owners showed her off like a new Sub-Zero refrigerator. "Let me tell you," her mistress chattered to visitors, "if you have...
...facade concealed a character capable of immense deceit, chilling detachment and cunning superficiality. Roosevelt and Churchill had become fast friends in the early days of the war, when Churchill stayed in the White House for weeks at a time. Churchill said, "No lover ever studied the whims of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt." Roosevelt, on the other hand, told Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, "I'm nearly dead. I have to talk to the PM all night, and he gets bright ideas in the middle of the night and comes pattering down the hall to my bedroom...
...mistress] is an individual's right." Thirachai Sirikhan, M.P. from Thailand's ruling Thai Rak Thai party, panning a proposal to allow only monogamous candidates to run in the next general election...