Word: mistressing
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...telescoping of history heightens its ironies. In a letter to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII can scarcely contain his urge to make her the "only mistress" of his life: "Whose pretty duckys I trust shortly to kiss." The very next reading is a letter Anne Boleyn sent from the Tower to plead for her life. Then comes a king who does not plead. Peremptorily charged with treason, Charles I stands on his divine rights: "I do not know how a king can be a delinquent." He rebukes his judges with a concept that is still sound after four centuries: "If power...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hopefully, a high-octane refinement of a situation like the Finch-Tregoff trial: a man and his mistress face a murder rap, and the victim, of course, is his wife...
...school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares about an accident in which he killed a man with his Ferrari. When his mistress finds out what's on his mind, she urges him to grab the girl and "get it over with." He does. Whereupon the girl goes briskly back to school, the man goes briskly back to his mistress...
...Mistress of Life. Measured even against such portentous events, the turning point that Christianity reached in 1962 is already assured of a firm place in history, that "mistress of life" to which Pope John occasionally refers. By launching a reform whose goal is to make the Catholic Church sine macula et ruga (without spot or wrinkle), John set out to adapt his church's whole life and stance to the revolutionary changes in science, economics, morals and politics that have swept the modern world: to make it, in short, more Catholic and less Roman. Stretching out the hand of friendship...
French Actor Alain Delon has helped too. He was her co-star in a 1961 Paris production of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. They have been man and mistress for four years. She calls him "my engaged husband." Fond of the conjugal we, she likes to say "we have 3,000 records," or "we both love dogs," or "we are getting married after Christmas, probably in the country, or in the snow." Delon preserves snowy silence...