Word: mistressing
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...stocked with Menderes' favorite Black Sea caviar and raki. For favors rendered, Menderes presented Ayhan with a black-lacquered American-style bar, a Buick of her own, and the use of a government limousine and chauffeur. By 1955 Menderes was spending more and more time with a new mistress, and Ayhan evidently decided that the way to hold him was to have a baby. Though she told investigators she had twice before been pregnant during her affair with the Premier, each time aborting, she now realized: "I loved him very much, I wanted to bear his child." When...
Author Updike tells his depressing and frequently sordid story with a true novelist's power. His too-explicit sexual scenes are often in the worst of taste, but his set pieces describing Rabbit's crackup, his confrontations with wife, family, mistress and imploring minister show some of the surest writing in years. Up to a point Rabbit, Run seems to be saying that this is what much of life in the U.S. is like; certainly Updike's scene and people seem too threateningly typical. Yet the real weakness of the book is Rabbit...
...Mistress of Mellyn, Holt...
...with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. After club, record, radio and TV success, Mike and Elaine are proving that the vials of their humor are full enough to intoxicate a Broadway theater. While there are rough edges in their portrayals of mother and son, brother and sister, lover and mistress, P.T.A. chairman and guest speaker, they are hilarious often enough...
...Mistress of Mellyn, Holt (9) 10. The Child Buyer, Hersey...