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...clear. He was named in the Christic suit but produced a factual refutation of several charges; among other things, he proved that he was in Washington at a time when Christic and Perot said he was in Bangkok arranging drug smuggling. Armitage did once have a Vietnamese mistress and years later used Pentagon stationery to write a character reference for her when she was convicted in Washington of running a gambling operation, which he concedes was a stupid move. It may also have aroused Perot's moralistic antagonism. Perot to this day keeps a picture of Armitage and the woman...
...dramatic narrative of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor in a large, Midwestern city who is accused of murdering his colleague and former mistress, became the subject of the blockbuster movie directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford...
True, this was common sense. But fashion has always been a more urgent mistress, especially when fashion comes cheap. The 19th century ushered in an era of cheap coal delivered by train. According to Orchard Professor of History in Landscape Development John Stilgoe, this inexpensive fuel and inventions such as tar paper, which could seal out the wind, led Americans away from energy-conserving design practices...
While Valmont seduces everything in a skirt, the Marquise is an equally manipulative woman. She claims that she was "born to dominate [the male] sex and avenge my own." She is a mistress of detachment. She creates a stark barrier between her true feelings and her appearance. These deceptive underpinnings fuel the nervous tension that culminates in an eventful climax, in which the protagonists learn that "vanity and happiness are incompatible...
Slavery has un-mothered them all. Joe Trace must name himself after being told that his parents disappeared "without a trace". Violet stays awake nights with the memory of her mother, who threw herself into a well. And Dorcas, Joe Trace's mistress, is orphaned when her parents perish during an East St. Louis riot. Slavery has taken their mothers, and its legacy of oppression has made them reject mothering: "the important thing ... was to never never have children. Whatever happened, no small dark foot would rest no another while a mouth said Mama...