Word: mistressing
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...favorito writers). But in Eliot's play the fun has just begun when Alcestis--Lavinia returns from the dead. Lavinia and her husband realize that time's only issue has been grief and anxiety, and that their marriage in its present state cannot last. Celia Coplestone, Edward's quondam mistress (apparently considered to be another aspect of Alcestis) decides that she is also far from mental health...
...find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...
...amid ecclesiastical tasks had felt little human emotion, the monsignor, turned detective about the dead, runs full tilt upon love and hate, good and evil, in the living. Encountered in his investigations are a humanely skeptical Jewish doctor, a peasant woman who was Nerone's adoring mistress, their illegitimate teen-aged son, and a nymphomaniac contessa who clashes with a bitter homosexual painter over the boy. Watching past and present collide, seeing martyrdom cheek by jowl with betrayal and murder with suicide, the monsignor-before his own death-becomes a more troubled man of God and aware shepherd...
...wayward as skillful. In a very jaunty first act. a young man-to impress a young lady-rents a house and hires himself two parents and an old family retainer. Then it turns out that he already has a wife, whose wealth keeps his real parents and his mistress and her husband in luxurious idleness. Soon these shoddy-chic cadgers, the pure, unworldly young lady and the three hired attendants are caught up with the young man in an Anouilhan dance of masks and mummery, of virginal love and veteran hate, pouncing as they pirouette, conspiring as they bid adieu...
...watch. "Too bad,'' he splutters as he dashes off, "but my time is up on the parking meter." The husband, all forgiveness, tenderly embraces an apparently contrite wife, but before they can enjoy their reconciliation, the poor chap has to take a phone call-from his mistress...