Word: mistressful
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Dickie lived with his mother, and the first time he ever saw Max was when the great man visited him at school accompanied by his German mistress. Right in front of the horrified headmaster, she asked Max to father a boy for her, just like Dickie, whom she could take back to Germany...
...Beethoven, the graphic art of Goya seems to transcend the limits of style and arrive at an absolute. The parallel is interesting because both men produced their greatest works shut off from the world of sound. Misfortune no doubt seemed endless in Goya's case: he lost his famous mistress, the Duchess of Alba, soon after he lost his hearing. But in spite of the compounded misfortunes, there was some compensation. It was just about this time that he was really finding himself as an artist. His etchings follow the last developments, describing the concerns and compositional techniques...
...prose in this issue is more understandable than the poetry, but on the whole it is no more exciting. S. R. Abt has written a good description of an awkward scene between a man and his mistress. Although Abt's characterizations are good enough, he ends his story so abruptly that it is no more than a sketch...
...same year Freud published The Case of Dora, the partial analysis of a girl of 18. She had the misfortune to be in love with both her father and his mistress-according to Freud-although conventional psychiatrists of the day would have dismissed her troubles simply as the result of "depression...
...satisfied smile confirms the growing suspicion that foul murder has been done. The camera switches to the mansion's cellar, where Housemaid Jean Simmons, her wits sharpened by adversity, has just finished dosing some rats with a little of the medicine that was given to her ailing mistress. The rats are dead...