Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greeley tracks the men to the 1978 papal elections, a maneuver that allows him to ransack his own nonfiction book, The Making of the Popes, 1978, and to use Pope John Paul II in a cameo role, praying for Cardinal Donahue's dying mistress. Along the way there are other, even less beguiling vignettes: in one scene Greeley portrays "a disciple of the Berrigans'," proclaiming that "we will make bombs, find guns; we will burn, trash and destroy." That is not what the Berrigans have ever preached, as Greeley well knows. But it is a symptom...
...Harding is the best of the second-raters." Disillusioned by the war and weary of Woodrow Wilson's high-road crusading, the voters overwhelmingly elected Harding. In the White House, he inaugurated twice-weekly poker games in the library and found a secluded closet for trysts with his mistress...
...bragging toper Pistol, whose tavern cronies Bardolph and Nym are sharply limned by Raymond Skipp and Norman Allen. (These two double as the soldiers who converse with the disguised king in a night scene far too brightly lit by Marc B. Weiss.) Aideen O'Kelly is a passable Mistress Quickly and a better Queen of France...
Ottone, a Roman nobleman, came home one night to discover his mistress, Poppea, in the arms of the notorious Emperor Nero. The Emperor finds time to dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero...
...must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...