Word: mistressful
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...shade in Mussolini, a fast-moving half hour on Twentieth Century galvanized by rare images of the living past. Viewers caught glimpses they had half forgotten or never seen before: newborn Fascist babies squirming wholesale on a nursery table; the bare-chested dictator on a ski slope; his mistress, Claretta Petacci, in a silken boudoir; an anonymous GI mugging in victory from the famous balcony of the Palazzo Venezia...
Hilda's mother, a servant, noted something odd about the girl in July, told her mistress, who took Hilda to the doctor. Astonished, he reported that Hilda was five months pregnant. Tearfully, the mother cried: "Let God's will be done." Hilda's father, however, rushed to the police, and they arrested a 22-year-old orphaned cousin who lived with the Trujillos in their one-room shack, charged him with rape...
...virginal; Alessandro Scarlatti's serene Sonata in F; and a highly stylized love song for tenor accompanied by cello and harpsichord, by a 17th century Casanova named Alessandro Stradella. The power of his music was legendary. Once, so a story goes, assassins hired by a prominent Venetian (whose mistress Stradella had carried off) caught up with him in a church where one of his oratorios was being performed; the music so moved the henchmen that they warned the composer and let him escape. But when a jealous actress sent other assassins after him in Genoa, no music was being...
...reality is not fiction. The real chauffeur is frustrated in every way. No sleeping with the mistress, no murdering the master--not in this pragmatic world, the British comedy soberly suggests...
...book from which it is drawn, from a nonexistent attack by outraged moralists. Britain's Savoyard Martyn Green gives a chirruping reading of selected passages from Ovid's Art of Love, Boccaccio's Decameron, Benjamin Franklin's Advice on the Choice of a Mistress, as well as a clutch of risque limericks...