Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanders to keep an eye on where Galante lives (an old, unprepossessing apartment house in Greenwich Village); where he eats (facing the door at a small restaurant near the Fulton Fish Market); where he "works" (a dry-cleaning business he supposedly owns in Little Italy); where he plays (his mistress's flat in Manhattan's Murray Hill section). Already this close surveillance has forced Galante to make one change: his 21-year-old daughter Nina used to cart him everywhere in a gold Eldorado, but now that the press has identified (and in gangland parlance "burned") her, Galante...
...physician named James Marsden, had put them in the Frenchwoman's charge so that she might cure them of masturbation-a practice that Victorians believed caused epilepsy, asthma, paralysis and madness. Doudet's qualifications for this task were obscure; she had previously been employed as a wardrobe mistress to Queen Victoria, who gave her a warm testimonial...
...issue of whether the sisters did or did not masturbate was never resolved. Doudet claimed that the dead girl had been suicidal because of her uncontrollable masturbation and had hit her head against the wall. Acquitted of causing the child's death, the Queen's ex-wardrobe mistress got five years for child abuse...
...second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive...
Divorce Revealed. Roger Vadim, 49, French film director (Barbarella); and his fourth wife, Munitions Heiress Catherine Schneider, 33; after four years as lovers and one year of marriage, one child; in Paris. Vadim on marriage: "You bring a mistress flowers, and she accepts them as a lovely present. A wife only notices when you don't bring flowers...