Word: mistressful
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...years, up to last week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert...
...Bikini. At 39, Curtin has the rare good fortune to be as talented an actress as she is a singer. Her Violetta in Traviata is rendingly pathetic, her Cathy in Carlisle Floyd's Wuthering Heights surgingly passionate, her Mistress Ford in Otto Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor broadly comic. Essentially a dramatic singer, she has power, purity and flexibility. At the Staatsoper, her voice was lush and intense. Although she had abandoned the bikini to which she customarily peels in Salome's Dance of the Veils (she had a daughter only three months ago, does...
...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...even as his champagne cocktail rises to full fizz, De Broca drops the Mickey in. Gradually he lets it be seen that none of the characters is really living his own life, that all instead are playing safe by playing roles, the usual overcivilized charades. Mistress No. 1, a successful couturiére, lives a man's life because she is afraid to be a woman. But she is also afraid to be alone, especially at night, so she rents a sheep she can count on till she falls asleep. The hero himself, more honest and more naive than...
...Mistress No. 2 plays two compensatory roles. In the one she is a grubby little housewife who patiently swallows a sedative husband (François Perier), in the other a glamorous woman of the world who takes lovers like Dexedrine tablets...