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...laden with stereotypes. Each of his five scenes works to a strong, stirring climax. Michele drives the gawking neighbors out of his cold-water flat after Annina's vision. During a religious parade, he is beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...
...trusting to know what Barney's left ist hand is doing. The courtroom play-by play takes up most of David's time, and far too much of the reader's. But after hours, David climbs into bed with Bar ney's erstwhile mistress and they reach "unbearable ecstasy" together. Though David does his best in court, community prejudice and Communist tactics manage to do their worst. Politically primitive, rigged for a predictable outcome, and larded with cliches that fight for inattention, Trial must have won its own case against 885 other contestants while the jury...
There was reason enough for the child, for Gaston had been able to visit his wife on furlough. But the doubts that the villagers implanted refused to vanish. When Raymond's book appeared, with its story of an adolescent who had got his older mistress with child shortly before her husband's return, Gaston's uncertainty became an incubus. He sent his son away and refused to have anything more to do with the child. Sensitive to every look askance in the village streets, he took his wife to another town and after that to still another...
MADAME DE POMPADOUR, by Nancy Mitford, saw the meeting of a lively writer and an ideal subject. A flashing, witty biography of the mistress of Louis XV that not only described the inane royal world of Versailles but made it plain that the French Revolution was inevitable...
...into a stuffy Cleveland courtroom to cover the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, on trial for the murder of his pretty, pregnant wife, Marilyn. Last week, after 30-odd long and often tedious trial days, the prosecution closed with a dramatic scene, the testimony of Sam's former mistress, Susan Hayes...