Word: mistressing
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...name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor became the richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor's mistress and persuaded him to divorce his wife. As an interim Senator in Washington, he married Baby Doe in a lavish ceremony attended by Congressmen, diplomats and President Chester A. Arthur himself. But when silver fell in 1893, Tabor fell with...
...that are not Henry's but Shakespeare's--and often reciting them in a regrettable sing-song voice at that. Some of the other actors are more successful with their words. Thayer David as the King of France incorporates them beautifully into his scared, vacillating character. Sylvia Gassel as Mistress Quickly has a lovely, silvery scene of mourning over the death of Falstaff. Felicia Montealegre is delightful in both French and English as the Princess Katharine, who is wooed in the last act by the half-bashful Henry. Paul Sparer as the Welsh captain Fluellen is admirable as both...
...months ago. Then police began to intimidate his friends, and police agents began to jostle him in the streets, blow smoke into his face, hoping to provoke an incident. On one occasion his wife was attacked by a woman who noisily claimed to have been Djilas' mistress, but Djilas took the case to court, where the woman, a provocateur, was fined. Children in the neighborhood were told not to play with the Djilas' three-year-old son. A spy was planted in the grocery where the family bought its food. When these methods failed to shake the stubborn...
...from the one in which William Gropper rose to prominence. It is no longer fashionable to say things in art. And it is dangerous to have a social conscience. Painting has escaped or been diverted from social concerns by concentrating on form. Wether or not prosperity is the mistress of aestheticism, both seem to have won the day. In America's greatest contemporary school of art, abstract expressionism, de Kooning looms as a demi-god to the disenchanted because some idea of pain and depth, some recognition of the essential difficulty of life, emerges from his struggle with form...
Hugo spent 18 years in Channel Island exile, with his wife, children, and Juliette Drouet (when their combined ages came to 125, Mme. Hugo and Mistress Drouet actually exchanged a few words, eventually became quite good friends). When Napoleon the Little fell, the "prophet of the Republic," white-haired and bursting with emotion, returned to Paris with the more-than-vague hope that the Republic would reciprocate by making him its head. That was not to be. Through the siege of Paris by the Prussians and the bloody uprising of the Commune ("Both sides are mad"), Hugo wrote and loved...