Word: mistressful
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...effective devices here is to insert scenes from Daugherty's autobiographical plays from the early years of the 20th century. In them Edward's love for Katrina survives above the wreckage of their marriage. In other lightly veiled dramatizations of his life, he lashes out at a former mistress who sleeps her way to silent-movie stardom. "Love is vertical," he writes. "You are relentlessly horizontal." Off the stage he confronts the novel's villain, an envious journalist and failed writer, with the killer line, "If your fiction was half as imaginative as your lies, you would have been famous...
Charles became alarmed about Diana's mood swings, her frequent tears and her obsession with his old mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles. But Diana was right. Charles had no heart to give her. It, along with a certain amount of sentimental jewelry, belonged to Camilla. Diana called her sisters to lunch just before the wedding and asked them if she might still get out of it. "Your face is on the tea towels, so it's too late to chicken out now," was the famous reply. The pity is that the bride could not ask the groom about whether they...
...Charles' circle is dominated by his mistress Parker Bowles; his foghorn friend Nicholas Soames, Minister of State for the Armed Forces; and Mountbatten's daughter Patricia. Perhaps the person closest to him is his private secretary, Richard Aylard, whose influence is extensive and widely questioned. In truth, Charles has the survival smarts of a baby seal. Aylard urged the Dimbleby project on him; his idea seemed to be that to know the Prince was to love...
...genuinely free" media, he fired the head of Russia's state-owned television network. (The station, it seemed, was engaged in too much muckraking.) Vyachelsav Kostikov, who once served Yeltsin as press secretary, said that for the President, "power is his ideology, his friend, his concubine and his mistress...
...laughs come from the bizarre anachronistic changes and crass one-liners. "Dorine, shut the fuck up!" is not really funny by itself. Injected into a 322-year-old text, it is hysterical. But it is also cheap. Auletta's changes are so self-conscious that Dorine, while discussing her mistress's illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted...