Word: mistressing
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...peak in my sociology class. Though it might be true that more people are sleeping together for love, there is still a strong belief in having sex for the fun of it. Most people in my class concluded that it wouldn't be so bad to have a mistress or to be one. Just be sure to get the fringe benefits without any strings attached...
There was a time when William Randolph Hearst, at his megalomaniac whim, could order his papers from coast to coast to lambaste Franklin D. Roosevelt on the front page, build up the career of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies on the movie page, and fill the intervening space with scandal. The Hearst papers have long since moderated their ways. No other newspaper chain nowadays commits such abuses. Instead, the damning indictment of most chain papers is that they have become flat, boring and timorous...
...good part: Pryor is splendidly funny. When the agribiz company transfers him back to his home town-by now he's an exec in a three-piece suit-he sets up his mistress and their baby on one side of town and lives with his wife (Margaret Avery) on the other. Since he is trying to be true to his mistress (here Sicily obtrudes), he doesn't make love to his wife. She decides that he must be accustomed to a sophisticated, Los Angeles kind of foreplay, and a marvelously boisterous (and girlsterous) scene follows in which...
Director Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...
...Only to say that Daniel Lavette is always in the right place at the right time-getting into shipping for World War I and out of it before the armistice gluts the seas with empty freighters; that he hedges his private happiness by keeping a wise, patient Oriental mistress in reserve; and that he is neither too proud nor too dissipated to return to his nets when the Depression shatters his empire...