Word: mistressful
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CACTUS FLOWER is a sex comedy from France that asks whether a don-juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) should ask his adoring assistant (Lauren Bacall) to be his accomplice in a plot against his mistress Would Samson ask Delilah to trim his hair...
...good concertmaster is as rare as a humble conductor. He is indispensable to a conductor's success and, as such, is guarded and pampered like a mistress. Sir John Barbirolli refers to his man as his "chief of staff," Eugene Ormandy's is his "mind reader," William Steinberg's his "seismograph," Donald Johanos' his "stroke...
...comedy, even a prude could relax and enjoy it, secure in the knowledge that every vibrant innuendo was just a homily in disguise. Nobody is perfect, after all-and problems have a way of working out. If an industrial giant (presented as a TIME cover subject) keeps a mistress, she is apt to be a glorious scatterbrain who ultimately meets a fellow of her own age and sends the giant back to his wife...
...Cheval Evanoui descends from a dynasty of successful novels and plays that was founded twelve years ago with Bonjour Tristesse, that sad, wispy novel about a girl's incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
...also studies the lives of the courtesans and acquires a French mistress whose advanced love games are teasingly unscored. The one fact of life Francis cannot face is the birth record his wife ferrets out that shows he is the child of a 21-inch circus dwarf and a lunch-wagon cashier. In a hysterical tizzy, Francis flees to Europe with a fresh mustache and a new passport listing his identity as Francois Hillairet...