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Alas, the context in which Russell sets these performances is obtuse to the point of caricature. Did Gaudier-Brzeska have a mistress? Then she must be a pneumatic and witless art groupie (Helen Mirren), daughter of a landed cavalry officer, who does her obligatory nude scene on the staircase of an immense, frigid Adam country house; she must also be a suffragette, which gives Russell much opportunity for lumpen-sexist travesty by having her do a song-and-hop number about votes for women in a nightclub and then, at Gaudier's demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around...
Although every true Frenchman is popularly supposed to have a mistress, some 70% of the husbands polled and 90% of the wives asserted that they had never been unfaithful to their spouses. Moreover, 50% of both sexes regard adultery as "unforgivable." On the average, the French women declared that they had been to bed with no more than two men in their lives, while men admitted to intercourse with less than a dozen women, including prostitutes. The myth of the widespread cinq-à-sept or cocktail-hour dalliance was also exploded; 82% of both sexes said that they make love...
...that Condon can't mention any character's irrelevant off-stage aunt without adding that she holds the world's record (2,164) for reading detective stories in a single year. The hero, a cashiered British navy captain, can't simply have a pretty French mistress with a thuggish father; she must be a Renoir nude and he the head of the Mafia in Marseilles. The captain's wife can't merely be rich and willful; she must run an investment program for the most powerful family in the U.S. and have...
...inauguration, Cooper, who is light-skinned (his great-great-grandmother was the mistress of Confederate General Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton and is buried beside him in Lafayette, La.), pledged that his administration would offer "equal opportunity in everything" to both races. With his London-educated wife Mado at his side, the new mayor conceded that a swimming pool in a black neighborhood was "psychologically and realistically inaccessible" to whites and that "white kids are swimming in a polluted creek." He would get the money, he promised, to build a new pool convenient to both races, but "they...
...health: "Never eat meat or drink tea, coffee or wine again as long as you live. Don't take any exercise, and do exactly the opposite of what the doctor advises." On education: "High School is teaching you nothing except how to become a high school mistress...