Word: mistressful
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...that salon-power was unofficial, illicit. Out in the real world, the public sphere, there were only men. Who remembers today that Madame de Stael coined the distinction between Classic and Romantic? In school you learn about Napoleon, Robespierre; who in the next generation will remember that Neitzsche's mistress prodded him into writing his greatest book? It's shameful...
...influence; this France which is increasingly reckoned with from one end of the world to the other . . ." In Sainte-Hermine, he laid a wreath at the monument to Georges Clemenceau, the French "Tiger" of World War I, and said: "Today, France is as Clemenceau would have wished: independent, free, mistress of her destiny...
...Chourbagi was a handsome Egyptian textile merchant who mixed fabrics and females while living and loving in Rome. He was found dead in his office off Via Veneto one morning last year, his body riddled with bullets, his face scarred with acid. The cops nabbed Farouk's combustible mistress, a honey-blonde Egyptian named Claire Bebawi, and her rich cotton dealer husband Youssef. Each said the other did it: he in a fit of jealousy, said she; she to end the affair, said he. Both were indicted for murder and went on trial together as codefendants...
...literary taste between Esquire and Rogue and such venarable ladies' magazines as The Ladies' Home Journal, in which they severally appeared. They deal with 1) a pair of young movie stars who get their kicks from phoning strangers, 2) a girl who tries to become the model mistress for man after man after man, 3) a four-party orgy that is so permissive it becomes a bore, and 4) a young man who takes his fiancée's beloved dog to a vet to be killed, to a taxidermist to be stuffed, and then leaves...
Insatiable Infant. "Sex," he once said, "is the principal business of life," and from his initiation at 15 to his death at 74, he lived in a jungle of erotic involvement. He endured eleven years with a wife and 26 years with a mistress, Helen Richardson, whom he eventually married just a year before his death, for the sake of the domestic comforts they provided, but conducted multiple affairs with college girls, actresses, housewives and heiresses. Always in search of new mistress-mothers, he devoured them all like an insatiable infant. He charmed them, lied to them and used them...