Word: mistressful
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...good hand. The play sounded as if it had been slapped together in six weeks on a borrowed typewriter (it was) by a would-be actress turned playwright (Gloria Russell, 22) to settle -the earth-shaking matter of what happens when a gynecologist impregnates his wife and his mistress at roughly the same time. The best notice for Sarah, who played the philanderer's wife, came from the London Daily Express, which found it "good to see her back." The Telegraph summed up the play: "As poor a piece as has reached any London stage for years...
...begins one of the most hilarious wedding nights of recent film history. Yul is a terrible-tempered conductor who "uses symphony orchestras the way [other people] use Kleenex." Kay, his mistress of many years, is tired of it all, wants to marry a nice, respectable college president and live like a human being. So she has married Yul so she can get a divorce so the college president will think he is getting an honest woman. But Yul, cad that he is, has no intention of divorce...
Clothes, or the lack of them, naturally obsessed the fashion-conscious French amorists. During the 14th and 15th centuries, women wore disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...
...former dean of the Geneva bar, a power in cantonal politics, a man of wealth and breeding, Jaccoud stood accused of a brutal and almost senseless murder: shooting and stabbing to death Charles Zumbach, 62, whose young son had captured the affections of Jaccoud's longtime mistress, pretty Linda Baud, 38 (TIME...
...Andrew Marvell's (1621-78) "To His Coy Mistress": Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime . . . And you should if you please refuse Till the conversion of the Jews...