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Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...
Only it isn't true, as I realized about the time I decided that Tiffany lamps were indeed what costume mistress Barbara Matheson was trying to make her hockey players look like. A Pudding show is about as camp as scotch and water. Athletes have been dressing up like whores as long as there've been college dining halls. There's nothing decadent in that. Dirty jokes are nothing new. People have been laughing at them for ages. Right Up Your Alley is in an ancient and venerable tradition. The only thing wrong with it is it's not funny...
Under Master Reuben Brower (currently on sabbatical) and Acting Master G. Wallace Woodworth, Adams has gained a reputation as the laissez-faire House. Enforcement of regulations is low-key and relaxed, but any Freshman intoxicated with visions of going to breakfast, wearing a T-shirt, with his mistress on his arm, should drink a cup of strong coffee. The girl will be asked to return at 4 p.m. and Neil Harris will probably ask the student to wear a tie. But he'll call it a cravat, which makes everything all right...
...week about returning triumphantly to Accra. No one believed him, of course, but there were plenty of reasons-apart from wanting his Redeemer's job back -to bring Kwame home. One of them was a lissome mulatto girl who, Ghanaian police last week announced, was Nkrumah's mistress. Her name was Genoveva Marais, and she had been Kwame's playmate on weekends at his country estate. To keep her happy, he had given her a job at Ghana Television and bought her a red Thunderbird convertible...
What Mommy wants is to be one up on Daddy-always. Of course, Daddy can be trying. He keeps a lemon-blonde lollipop of a mistress around the place, and sometimes gives her a lick, right in front of Mommy. Since they are all unloving and unloved, no one is hurt. But the pomposities of the dialogue can be pretty wounding: "The sky is pocked with stars," "I've spent two years on every street in hell...