Word: mistressful
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...speak. He is never described. He is an unmoved viewer of objective scenes into whose visions only the barest and rarest hints of emotion are allowed to creep-resignation at being yoked to Marianne, his mercilessly neurotic French wife; pain at the loss of Dagmar, his blonde German mistress...
...succeeded in writing a good novel about her odory heroines.... the answer is that she came just far enough to irritate the life out of us... She get just so far symbolically as the episode in one of her scenes where the butler comes in to whieper to his mistress that the child of the visiting lady has had an unfortunate accident in his pants. Yes, Mary deposited a lead on the promise, and it has to be washed all over again...
...sleeves of her dress--" the saffron dress with the golden border. Then the black and white men of court return and Aegon thinks of "Lesbos when the beach turned gray" and "the gray stallion of the autumn." And finally Clytemnestra returns--with neither her husband nor his mistress, but with the blood of both. She flings her cloak open: it shines blood scarlet. She wraps it around her; still the scarlet lining shows, till the last light is out and there is silence...
...pawed the ground a little himself after he caught sight of his costar, lissome French Actress Capucine, 30. Next the two were teamed in a Far East thriller called Wherever Love Takes Me, in which Holden plays a rubber planter and Capucine is a Eurasian schoolteacher who becomes his mistress. By that time Holden had a pretty fair idea where love was taking him. He announced that he was breaking up his 22-year marriage (two sons) to former Hollywood Star Brenda Marshall...
...within-a-play. The time is now, although the count and keeper of an 18th century chateau is rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...