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Carpentier's hero is a Manhattan musician, married to a successful actress. Working for radio and TV, his relations to his busy wife reduced to brief bedroom encounters on Sunday mornings, he has turned to drink and a mistress. His chance comes when a university museum sends him to a South American jungle to search for primitive musical instruments. He takes his mistress along. But, confronted with life in the raw, the girl loses her nerve along with her complexion. What had been overwhelming sex appeal in New York now becomes whining femininity, and a native woman named Rosario...
...answer, city hall pointed gleefully to at least one priest who had absconded with some 9,000,000 yen contributed by visitors at his temple, spent 2.000,000 of it on geisha girls and cabarets and the rest on a sloe-eyed model whom he set up as mistress of her own bar. Admitting that "perhaps some priests have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing...
When Charles II visited his wealthy mistress, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, and surprised her in bed with bone-poor Ensign Jack Churchill, the monarch kept his head and, addressing the young man, said: "You are a rascal, but I forgive you, for you do it to get your bread." How right Charles was may be seen by the fact that after a year or two of bundling with Barbara and shrewdly investing her handouts, Churchill had founded the fortunes of his family and embarked on one of the most glamorous careers in British history...
...Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became...
...dull and plain little Princess Anne. When Author Rowse says bluntly that "Anne was in love" with Sarah, he is probably not exaggerating. For Sarah's smile Anne was prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home, began his unrivaled series of British military triumphs...