Word: mistressing
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...Louis felt the need for a bit of privacy and built the Grand Trianon, a modest 72-room hideaway of pink and green marble, a mile and a half away. That edifice, in turn, inspired the Petit Trianon, a 30-room cottage that Louis XV built for his mistress Madame de Pompadour in 1762. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fell victim to the French Revolution in 1789, so did Versailles: its paintings were carted off, its tapestries ripped apart for the gold thread, and its furniture sold. In 1830, 15 years after the monarchy was restored, French officials were...
Guide's mistress (Anita Morris), torridly voluptuous in body-hugging see-through lace, is another stereonought. As she flaunts her breasts and wiggles her derriere, she disintegrates into a burlesque of female sexuality. The evening's most potent aphrodisiac is Montevecchi's display of her wares and her wiles in a number called Folies Bergeres...
...Communists, with their workers' theaters and cabarets, offer him showcases? Very well, he will be a Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin's better artistic circles? Fine, he will marry her and quietly send for his mistress once he has settled into his new career in the capital. Do the Nazis flatter him, indulge him and eventually offer him the directorship of a great state theater? All right, he will reshape his famous performance as Mephistopheles in Faust to suit their totalitarian purposes. They represent...
...Floating Lightbulb is the story of the Pollacks, a struggling family on the outskirts of everything in 1945 Brooklyn. Max is a small-time numbers runner and waiter supporting a mistress he can't afford, in debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge...
...during the stormy reign of King Henry VIII, the play revolves around the events leading up to Sir Thomas More's execution for refusing to sanction Henry's divorce of his first wife to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Henry doesn't require More's permission as his chancellor to marry again: he merely wants the approval of his friend to the point he will kill More if he doesn't sign his name to a piece of paper, condoning the marriage...