Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gifted singer to succeed the clown Will Kempe. The current Feste is Mark Lamos, who not only has a fine voice but also plucks his own theorbo in the charming songs composed by John Morris. Freedman has also given Feste four additional singers. In the setting of "O Mistress Mine," for instance, with its lovely upward leaps of sixths and sevenths, Lamos, sitting cross-legged on the kitchen table, starts by himself, is joined by two men and then two women, and the song is finally done as a canon. The setting warrants its later reprise just before the tabor...
...South Vietnamese "peace candidate" who ran unsuccessfully in 1967. The FBI quickly traced one of Truong's contacts to the U.S.I.A. The suspect turned out to be Humphrey, a middle-ranking official who had served three years in Viet Nam and was desperately trying to extricate his Vietnamese mistress and her children from Saigon, where they remained after the Communist takeover in 1975. Moving in, the FBI borrowed a Vietnamese woman agent from the CIA to act as a courier between Truong and Vietnamese officials in Paris. It also planted a hidden TV camera in Humphrey's office...
...chitchat" and assorted trivia. One cable marked SECRET was a published interview. Other sensitive items included copies of the Congressional Record and a book on fish protein concentrate. But some papers were not so banal. Humphrey admitted releasing confidential cables to Truong in the forlorn hope of freeing his mistress. The two defense lawyers cooperated throughout most of the trial, but at the end Humphrey's attorney dramatically turned on Truong, accusing him of being a professional spy who had duped Humphrey into his misdeeds...
...tactic failed to separate the pair in the eyes of the jury. After two days of deliberations, both men were found guilty on six of the seven counts of espionage, making them subject to life imprisonment. As for Humphrey's mistress, she was freed last July...
...loosens up. Of course, they have their tempestuous moments, but what marriage doesn't have its rough spots? The pair settle down very nicely together on the yacht or his private island, and she even gets used to his little quirks - like not getting rid of his mistress after the marriage. Later, following the death of his son, Theo is seen suddenly to age. Liz shows a steely side; she is frightfully patient as he turns into Zorba right be fore her eyes...