Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book appeared in France last year, the weekly Le Peuple spoke for most of the critics when it said: "The Illusionist is not, strictly speaking, a masterpiece, but it is not far from...
...lene's miracle takes the form of a chance meeting with her father's Russian mistress, Tamara. To Tamara, who has lived precariously for most of her 35 years, Papa Noris is an anchor of security, though he never guesses how often and strangely she drags anchor. For Tamara is a Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke...
...didn't know that. Steinbeck has made her a dish of distilled evil, one of the most implausible women in fiction's gallery. As a young, sweet-looking girl she had murdered her parents, burned the family home and skipped off to Boston. There she became the mistress of a man who ran a string of brothels, drove him mad with jealousy and was almost beaten to death by him. When she crawled...
...Where Nature is mistress . . . villages are tiny islands and refuges, and houses in the country have no more significance than rowboats on the ocean...
...September 1949. A watchmaker, Ruest made the bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...