Word: mistressing
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Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...characters are caught up in the delightful game of cuckoldry. The sophisticated ladies of the city are accomplished players, but the country wife. Mistress Margery Pinchwife, is grossly ignorant of the rulies...
...Mistress Alithea (Sally Faith Dorfman) is the only one who does not what to join in the sport. She sincerely believes in fidelity, yet even she is not a completely positive figure. Her virtue appears ridiculous because her finance. Sparkish, to whom she is so stubbornly faithful, is the most absurd...
...Playing Mistress Margery, Susan Ehrlich has firm control of her part, though as the program notes inform us, she assumed it less than two weeks ago. She is completely convincing as the artless girl, unschooled in the ways of the city, but eager to learn...
...wine merchant, Martin (Ian caroms from mistress to wife, only find that Mrs. Wine Merchant (Lee Remick) plans to run off with her (Richard Attenborough). Wife shrink plan no abandonment of Martin; instead they demand his love and understanding, which they will return interest. Indeed, they are so that eventually Martin apologizes them for his "piece on the side." make a long story unendurable, piece eventually takes up with brother, and Martin falls in with the doctor's half sister. Honor Klein Bloom), an exotic cabalist on the of Charles Addams' Morticia...