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...Alfa-Romeo that failed to do the job: the car in which Benito Mussolini and his mistress tried, unsuccessfully, to escape Italian partisans...
...also wrote letters, mostly to his wife, his mother-in-law, his mistress and his valet. Unlike his fictive fantasies, these painful letters are not designed to give pleasure. Most of them are wheedling pleas to be let out of prison, or the usual prisoner's complaint about the food or the class of person he is compelled to associate with. Some are funny, some unconsciously so, including one in which he suggests that a few girls as cellmates would relieve him of the urge to write books...
When Lacouture warms to a topic, he shows a flair for the aphorism. The relationship between France and Indochina, according to Lacouture, had all the psychological complexity of love and hate at the same time. "It was something very troubled, like an old liaison of a man and his mistress...
John Berryman, author of Seventy Seven Dream Songs and the Homage to Mistress Bradstreet will read from his poetry at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Emerson 105. Tickets are available at the Coop or the door...
...Paris and served for a time as a translator for the Allies. Then his friend John Singer Sargent introduced him to a wealthy patroness who arranged for him to play in Spain. He needed a passport, so the lady wangled forged papers through a friend who was the mistress of the Russian ambassador...