Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves to be recognized as such. She was a prolific, if now rarely read, novelist and playwright, an early feminist, a virulent anti-clericalist and, until old age and disillusionment set in, a self-declared communist...
Highlights of Gilmore's story appeared in the National Enquirer, including an interview about his thoughts on death and a series of letters to his onetime mistress. Nicole Barrett, 20, who has been hospitalized ever since she joined him in an unsuccessful suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...
...little more than kissing cousins. Act I recounts a Christmas episode in which an accident befalling a nutcracker, the favorite present of Clara Stahlbaum, triggers a dream. Toys come to life. A platoon of mice invades her parlor. The nutcracker turns into a prince who leads his young mistress on an imaginary journey to the Kingdom of Sweets. The second act is usually a froth of dazzling leaps, spins and exuberant folk-flavored dances...
...Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy before they...
...mistress, and his paramour, of joys...