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Entity with a Grudge. The author's mother was the mistress of Pound's middle and later years, a gifted violinist named Olga Rudge. Since little Mary was a by-blow and an inconvenience -Olga, Pound and Mrs. Pound all moved in the same European artistic circles-she was boarded from birth with a farm family in the Italian Tyrol. Mary's first memory of her Tattile, as her foster parents called Pound, is of a pair of shiny shoes she was not allowed to touch. On another visit, alarmed at her farm-girl fingernails and unbrushed...
...seems, he has had no secrets that the cops do not know instantly. When he consults a black driver who lives above a Panther storefront, Duke's schemes are electronically processed. T-men tune in on his conversations with Angelo; even the apartment of Duke's mistress (Dyan Cannon) is tapped by a jealous lover. As the plans unfurl, the eavesdroppers are heavily lampooned. America, in a supposedly shattering revelation, is shown to be not only a racist society but also a bugged...
...into filing cabinets for safety. Instead, she simply locks the sphere. Several large furniture firms that have installed spheres in their retail outlets find them ideal for credit offices; they enable a client who is arranging for a credit purchase to reveal his salary, alimony and allotments to his mistress out of earshot of other customers...
Adolf Hitler's mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered. Yet her name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding...
...other Rohmer stories, the protagonist is an amiably vain, self-righteous prig torn by his infatuation with two women. Adrien (Patrick Bauchau) is a dandified Paris antique dealer who decides to take a vacation from his mistress. His holiday goal at a friend's villa near St.-Tropez, he announces, is "to do and to be absolutely nothing." Unfortunately for his purposes, the villa is already occupied by a painter friend and by Haydee (Haydée Politoff), a pouty, bikini-clad young swinger who collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter...