Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miserly uncle; pop psychohistories of selected U.S. Presidents, including Truman ("Harry was a 'mama's boy' "); 16 pages of fact and gossip about the Academy Awards; Eartha Kitt's idea of utopia and a summary of W.C. Fields' will, which left his mistress $25,000, two bottles of perfume, a Cadillac and a dictionary...
Naipaul's vision is different from Roche's because it does not legitimize imperialism or attempt to uphold this fragile mess of relations. By the end of the novel Roche's hopeless and fragile position has made him an unwitting accomplice in the murder of his mistress, and his revolutionary opponent is simply a personal opponent. Just because he reduces his paragons of imperialist and guerrilla to such an individualistic level, Naipaul does not dismiss the issue of imperialism. Imperialism has much more subtle effects, Naipaul indicates, than building slums and mansions and creating racist distinctions. Imperialism twists social relations...
...butts struck the door of the apartment near Rapallo where Pound lived à trois with his wife Dorothy and his mistress of many years, a violinist named Olga Rudge. He was taken to a military stockade near Pisa and installed on death row in a steel cage 6 ft. square and open to all weathers. After three weeks of treatment designed to break the spirits of the most hardened criminals, Pound suffered a severe emotional breakdown...
...dogs. With Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries punctuating its grisly movements, the camera catches sight of the grotesque forms of the hanged above the melee, pausing to observe the ironic inscription from Auschwitz which overlooks the courtyard: Arbeiten macht frei. Through this domain of death stalks its mistress, an obese female commandant whose impassive visage makes her the least human element of the picture. The tableau brings to mind Dante's Inferno as Goya or Bosch might have rendered it, but without any air of conscious imitation...
...might save a politician's sanity," said Democrat John V. Lindsay, 54, that philandering politician in the former New York mayor's first novel is strictly fiction. The central character in The Edge is dapper Mike Stuart, an ambitious Congressman with a wife, three children and a mistress. The author, insisted Lindsay, is an ambitious ex-Congressman with a wife and four children. Period. "As my old friend Bill Buckley said, there is a certain amount of obligatory sex in a book," Lindsay observed at a Manhattan publishing party held in his honor last week...