Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borderland by Neil Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire...
...located somewhere between depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela Melato); no matter that his energy and commitment make his fellow workers look bad: Lulu slaves away like a man possessed...
Soon Lulu becomes as buggy as his friend. He turns rabidly political, delivers fiery speeches about the necessities of industrial reform, resistance and strike. For his pains, his mistress leaves him and the police beat him up. In politics as in work, Lulu's greatest quality- his enthusiasm-is eventually turned against...
Down but not out in Paris, Dr. George Goggins and his mistress Dulcinea decide to found a sex clinic for dissatisfied couples. Why not? Goggins is a biologist specializing in human fertility, and Dulcinea is:-well, skilled and nubile. Before they can say Kama Sutra, a throng of tense American and English twosomes have assembled for lessons. Soon odd things are happening. The shrill, squeaky voices of the wives turn plush and throaty. The husbands, mostly NATO officials, lose their interest in rocketry and war. One way and another, their marriages bloom as never before...
Most of the suspense in Mandingo is generated by the unconscionable amount of time it requires for the blonde mistress of Falconhurst to invite into her bed the handsome black slave (Ken Norton) her husband purchased to improve the breeding stock down in the quarters. Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama. The possibility that the perfection of its tastelessness will be marred through oversight or the impulse to provide novelty through omission is an irritant. There is great relief when, at last, our heroine (Susan George) succeeds...