Word: mistressful
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...told his mistress, Lucy Krohg, who still runs a gallery on Paris' Right Bank, that he could no longer cross a street without her. The passage of time frightened him so much, she recalled last week, that he once threw a grandfather's clock out of the window. But time caught up with him. In 1930, at the age of 45, Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, Forgive me" on the wall with his own blood, and finding death too slow in coming determinedly hanged himself from his studio door...
Last week he shouted, "Come to me, baby!" through a locked door in a St.-Tropez apartment house. Inside, Isabelle Pons, 24, a sometime model and script girl and his former mistress, told him to go away. Levy fired a shotgun into his belly and died 20 minutes later in the hospital...
...much as any African leader, Kwame Nkrumah relished the plush life that power can buy. The self-styled redeemer of Ghana nearly bankrupted his country by building palatial hotels, modernistic palaces and a cozy hideaway for his favorite mistress. Even after he was overthrown last February, it seemed likely that Nkrumah would continue to wield power and enjoy life as few exiles ever had. Guinea's President Sekou Touré gave Nkrumah a hero's welcome and startled the world by proclaiming that the visitor was coPresident. Said Touré: "Nkrumah belongs to all Africa, not just Ghana...
...short end of the stick, that Jason was a no-good porco. Menotti did not quite see it that way. "Jason's story is like every Italian man's," he explained. "He is just a tired man who wants to get rid of his mistress and settle down...
From Nora, Joyce demanded continual proofs of love. The major one, right at the outset, was that she leave Ireland with him as his mistress in 1904. They were finally married in 1931, but only to make sure that Joyce's family could legally claim his estate. Nora gave in full measure the affection and companionship that Joyce so desperately needed, but she could make nothing of his work. The first copy of Ulysses was given Nora, but she never got around to reading the book...