Word: mistressing
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...physician named James Marsden, had put them in the Frenchwoman's charge so that she might cure them of masturbation-a practice that Victorians believed caused epilepsy, asthma, paralysis and madness. Doudet's qualifications for this task were obscure; she had previously been employed as a wardrobe mistress to Queen Victoria, who gave her a warm testimonial...
...second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive...
Divorce Revealed. Roger Vadim, 49, French film director (Barbarella); and his fourth wife, Munitions Heiress Catherine Schneider, 33; after four years as lovers and one year of marriage, one child; in Paris. Vadim on marriage: "You bring a mistress flowers, and she accepts them as a lovely present. A wife only notices when you don't bring flowers...
...regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves to be recognized as such. She was a prolific, if now rarely read, novelist and playwright, an early feminist, a virulent anti-clericalist and, until old age and disillusionment set in, a self-declared communist...
Highlights of Gilmore's story appeared in the National Enquirer, including an interview about his thoughts on death and a series of letters to his onetime mistress. Nicole Barrett, 20, who has been hospitalized ever since she joined him in an unsuccessful suicide pact last November. On sleepless nights in prison, Gilmore said, he has been haunted by ghosts. "They're slippery, sneaky, and get tangled in your hair like bats . . . demons with dirty, furry bodies whispering vile things . . . creeping, crawling, red-eyed soul less beasts. They bite and claw, scratch and screech...