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According to the program, Sandy plays Ellen Gordon, the mistress of Tycoon John Cleves (Don Porter). For Internal Revenue purposes, she is a tax dodge. His corporate tax returns list no executive sweetie, only the executive suite that she occupies rent-free on Manhattan's upper East Side. For her tycoon, Sandy is the marriage dodge, the once-weekly moonlighting that leaves John wan each Thursday...
...Mistress Ellen is herself a toy, and she is faced, moreover, with the transformation problem endemic in all U.S. sex farce: how to ascend from playmate to helpmate in two acts and four scenes of deepening innuendo...
...game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged and out-snuffed at every turn. The young "Yid scribbler" makes off with his mistress...
...weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child alone at play. It is sad when he pulls the wings off a wasp...
...told, Erasmus Darwin had 14 children by two wives and one long-suffering mistress. Only one son, Robert, survived to become a doctor, and his lackluster career was a persistent disappointment to his father. But Robert became the father of Charles and Charles made the family name famous. When he advanced his theory of evolution in Origin of the Species, Charles relied partially on his grandfather's investigation of gene mutations described in the treatise Zoonomia...