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...Andalusian gypsy and a Greek naval officer. At 13, she ran away from an orphanage to dance in the cabarets. At 14, she married an Italian who abandoned her in Monte Carlo after losing the key to her bedroom in a dice game. At 18, she was the mistress of a Russian prince and two years later made it to Paris, where she became a Spanish dancer in a four-star restaurant in the Palais Royal. Sighed one admirer: "All the Orient was in her hips...
...compliments Pablo Picasso, 83, could pay a friend in the old days was, "he always knew how to touch the sore spot." Not that Pablo was thin-skinned, understand. "People always tell untrue stories about me-let them," he said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman leaves...
...very sorry for the duck," said a zoo spokesman, "but it is rather heartening for us to see Goldie get a good square meal." Goldie had in fact made an earlier stab at food in the form of Dusty, a Cairn terrier ambling with his mistress through the park, but Dusty fought the eagle to a draw. A snow goose would have fared less well had not spectators driven Goldie...
...days of exploration. Only the Louvre and Leningrad's Hermitage, among museums outside of Holland, rival the Met's Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...
Each in its way makes a contrast between worldly and moral achievement. In A Promising Career, an inhumanly professional bachelor pursues his ambitions until his mistress, a Venus' fly trap passing as a violet, involves him in a scandal, ruins his career, sees him exiled to Ghana, where he hits the bottle, hits bottom, and discovers that he is human after all. In The Clever One, a successful, coldly unlikable lawyer meets an aging courtesan who marks him down for marriage and alimony, then sweet-cheats him at every turn until he finds her out, throws...