Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer's new production is aptly named. At 71, the author remains one of the least explicit but most sexually charged of modern writers. In Old Love, an ancient millionaire rediscovers his amatory instincts-only to have his young mistress plunge from a window. In The Witch, an ungainly schoolgirl enchants a repressed intellectual until at last he seizes her, "a witch drenched in blood and semen, a monster that the rising sun transformed into a beauty...
...Awbery, 43. In July he took out a license to marry her in September-but now Dowson ungallantly insists that "Sir John talked me into it. He said I had to do it for the company image." Davis had another interest: Awbery is a close friend of his own mistress, Felicity Rutland, a 37-year-old who was Britain's debutante of the year in 1956. A mere two weeks before he was supposed to marry Awbery, Dowson stole away to marry instead a mysterious 26-year-old beauty, Denise Shurman, in a "secret" ceremony -reports of which, however...
...Passion. Charles has made the mistake of committing a crime in a milieu where nothing much matters. He himself remains largely dead to the world, so that when he strangles his mistress (Anna Douking) during a bizarre sex game it is difficult initially to determine whether the killing was an accident or an unaccustomed act of passion. He is rather gloomy afterward, as his best friend François (François Perier) duly notes. But Charles barely manages a look of concern when François hears that his wife has met with an "accident." It is Fran...
...seriousness of his situation rests with ever-increasing firmness on Charles' modishly tailored shoulders. On the way to his dead mistress's funeral, he silently mouths a confession in the back seat of a car. A police inspector confides to him that the murder may never be solved. With mounting distress, Charles tells his wife (Stçphane Audran) about his affair and the killing. She considers these revelations and is understanding. He tells his friend François, who is forgiving too. "No one," François explains, "is guilty of what happens in a nightmare." After...
...work in England since Van Dyck. The last modern painter to affect John's work was Paul Gauguin, whose flat, hieratic patterning was echoed in decorative figure compositions. John's favorite subjects remained the two main women in his life, Ida the wife and Dorelia the patient mistress, posing among their hordes of children in long columnar skirts and peasant shawls beside Romany caravans. But the 20th century was for John merely the unfortunate bracket of time in which he happened to live. He shared neither its energies nor its Angst. He saw modernity as a threat...