Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jane Ace, 74, who teamed with her husband, Comedy Writer Goodman Ace, in the popular radio comedy show of the '30s and '40s, Easy Aces, in which he played irritated straight man to her befuddled mistress of misspeak; in Manhattan. Among her inspired malapropisms: "Time wounds all heels" and "Doctor, feel my purse...
...with the uncontaminated candor of Ivy Compton-Burnett's oracular children. The close, conspiratorial relationship between Rose and Sarah, the rebel maid, was inspired by the two maids in Henry Green's novel Loving (belowstairs in a country house). Remembering how one of those maids found her mistress in bed with a lover, Jean says: "I always wanted to walk in on Lady Marjorie like that and scream: 'Ow, she's in bed with the wrong man!' " That line never got spoken. Instead, Jean based much of the cockney dialogue on her mother...
...authentic expression of independent personality, of her right to growth through personally challenging work, and even of her right to direct participation in the forces in her life. For Anais Nin, the diary itself proved her only haven of authenticity: "Playing so many roles, dutiful daughter, devoted sister, mistress, protector, my father's new found illusion, Henry's needed all-purpose friend, I had to find one place of truth, one dialogue without falsity. This is the role of the diary...
...very good person," he says with heartfelt gratitude as Bergen volunteers for a particularly dangerous bit of criminality. "This is a very frightened truck," he observes as their robbery vehicle draws up in front of 11 Harrow House to begin the caper. His comment, when Howard's mistress comes to their rescue after Howard has turned against Grodin and troops of bad guys are wildly pursuing him over hill and dale: "I wish I'd been nicer...
...smuggler king who, like Dr. No, runs his crooked empire from a posh suite crammed with electronic marvels, secret panels designed for quick getaways and strong rooms filled with gold and jewels. Invariably, he drinks the finest Scotch, drives a fast foreign car and has a passionate, sloe-eyed mistress. The Indian government has decided that the stereotype is a little too true to be good...