Word: mistressing
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Rabbit knew the guy was half-crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
Died. Mathilda Kschessinska, 99, prima ballerina assoluta of the Russian Imperial Ballet at the turn of the century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made...
After 20 years of true red love, Italy's Numero Una Communist, Luigi Longo, 71, boss of the largest (1,500,000 members) Communist Party in the West, took advantage of Italy's new divorce law to make an honest comrade of his longtime mistress Bruna Conti, 58. Their 17-year-old son Egidio was present at the ceremony, performed by the Communist mayor of Genzano. So were two other sons by his previous wife Teresa Noce, who fought beside him in the Spanish Civil War and served the party in Italy, Spain and France. Though Longo...
...conductor reprimanded her: "Don't interrupt me when I'm speaking to somebody else." Beverly said: "I'll go you one better. I won't sing when you're conducting," and stomped offstage. During the preparations for her La Scala appearance, she climaxed an argument with the wardrobe mistress by snatching a pair of scissors and snipping a costume into pieces. The onlooking cast and chorus burst into applause, an Italian tribute to a flare of real temperament...
...little, apricot colored house overlooking the town of San Basilio. She intends to research a study of the near medieval lives of contemporary southern Italian women, but she soon gets far more than she asks for. Her friend Marina, a schoolteacher, turns out to have been the secret mistress of the previous occupant of the apricot house: Marco Santoro, a gifted teacher and that anomaly in San Basilio, "a hopeful...