Word: mistressful
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...flow to the already rich classes. One result is an attitude of largesse oblige-if you have money, spend it. Instead of heading for Caspian Sea resorts, affluent Iranians now fly to Europe for a vacation-or a dental checkup, a visit to a London tailor or a Paris mistress. Some government ministers have tripled their departments' budgets, then put the money into expensive furniture and other signs of ostentation. The governor of Baluchistan province almost lost his job for ending his fiscal year with a $2.5 million surplus. Explains a Tehran editor: "It is considered almost immoral...
...SMALL GERMAN town at the beginning of the last century, a simple soldier, abused by his superiors and mocked by his fellows, suspects his mistress of infidelity and stabs her to death. The act is undeniably tragic, even fated, yet the soldier's motives remain unclear. Is the murder an act of passion, the frenzy of a man going mad, or an understandable reaction to a social degradation that has become unbearable...
Black Jack Bouvier moved into Grey Gardens in between the wars with his wife, his sister Edith and her husband, a lawyer. Then came the Wall Street crash and the Bouvier fortune was smashed. The Bouviers moved out and Edith's husband ran off, leaving her as the sole mistress of the mansion. Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier were brought up there with Edie, who at the time outshone them both--her prospects seemed boundless. But things reversed themselves. Jackie went off to marry Jack Kennedy, Lee became a princess, and Edie was left behind, never quite able to break away...
...strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from the mayor, then grabs for his job. But old Mayor Quinn (Ken Costigan) turns out to be as wily as he is corrupt, and he finally kills Matt's political chances...
...movie is based not on a balanced view of Fields, but on the memoirs of the young woman, Carlotta Monti, who was his mistress (companion is probably a better word) during his last years. Her view of the man, of her own significance in his life, was scarcely objective or complete. Doubtless they cared for each other in a way that the movie is not clear about; doubtless she eased his passage through these years when drink wreaked its vengeance on him. Except for a certain vocal monotony, Valerie Perrine is winning as Carlotta. Like everyone else involved...