Word: mistressing
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...support ing characters had changed. Erstwhile Sister-in-Law Mary was now Boehme's wife and, until she was ejected from the courtroom by Judge Hardyn Soule for an intemperate outburst, seldom let go of her husband's hand or lost her demurely trusting smile. The mistress in this case was Wanda Ostby, 30, a comely housewife from nearby Bremer ton, whose testimony seemed genuine despite a tigerskin coat that plainly was not. Wanda had been one of Boehme's patients until, she said, she visited his office one day and "he no longer looked...
CACTUS FLOWER. Barry Nelson as a playboy dentist who must persuade his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Daft farce, deftly directed by Abe Burrows...
Died. Fernande Olivier, 83, Pablo Picasso's first great love, who met him in Paris in 1903, was his mistress and model for nine years, watching him pass from his Blue Period to rose-toned nudes, which she told about in Picasso and His Friends (1933); in Paris...
...nearly enough about the narrator's mother, who writes to her Haitian lover: "Marcel, I know I'm an old woman and as you say a bit of an actress. But please go on pretending. As long as we pretend we escape. Pretend that I love you like a mistress. Pretend that you love me like a lover. Pretend that I would die for you and that you would die for me." Corny stereotypes can be enjoyable...
...ever provokes in him is mild, petty jealousy. He describes events flatly and dully, and one often wonders why he ever does anything at all. His one definitive action--smuggling a prisoner across the border--is by his own admission performed only to get the man away from his mistress, even though he has no grounds for suspecting a liaison between them. Although others in the book comment on his courage, his only real motive is baseless jealousy. There seems to be nothing in this man worth writing about, no interests or emotions. And any story seen from his viewpoint...