Word: mistressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambrose Bierce, the 19th century author and iconoclast, who defined marriage as a "community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two." In the past few years that community has come under increasing attack from feminists who feel that the traditional marriage has really consisted of one master (the husband) and one slave (the wife). Under the feminists' onslaught, the old rigid forms of marriage have begun to change, especially among younger couples. Some of the new roles assigned to husbands-and to wives-are proving to be impractical, but others may well become...
Died. Bronislava Nijinska, 81, grande dame of neoclassical ballet; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Though overshadowed for a time by her famous brother Vaslav Nijinsky, she built her own durable reputation as a choreographer, dance mistress and inspiration of two generations of ballet performers. While ballet in the early part of the century stressed costume and dramatic content, La Nijinska helped re-establish the importance of pure dance through her creations Les Biches and Les Noces...
...married and had a son (named after him, now seven years old). Then he took a mistress, Greta lude, a beautician. On Aug. 19, 1965, Blyden parked a rented car, a blue 1965 Mustang, in front of his girl friend's house in The Bronx. That same afternoon, a black man walked into Alexander's Rent-A-Car agency, six blocks away, and stole $600. He rode off in a 1965 blue Mustang, which had been waiting with a driver at the wheel...
...through dress you'd rather not) makes the introductions, and Robert makes the pass. Stella, interested but uncertain, takes a rain check. Zee watches the whole thing blooming but dismisses Stella as "a soulful slob." Imagine her surprise when Robert not only takes Stella as his mistress but also starts to take Stella seriously...
...woman is suing the government for a raise in her pension from $258.40 to $387.60 a month. After all, Husband Benito Mussolini was Italy's Fascist Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 (he was eventually shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's widow really deserved more money-plus the return of three Mussolini farms that the government had confiscated-Donna Rachele retorted: "Non facciamo ridere i polli" (literally, "Let's not make the chickens laugh"-meaning "Don't be silly...