Word: paramour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brummell, Stewart Granger probably gives the best performance of his career. By nature an admirable clotheshorse, he just lets nature take its course and since he hardly bothers to act, the audience is hardly bothered by his acting. As his paramour, Lady Patricia, Elizabeth Taylor behaves so naturally that sometimes a Regency gala seems almost as sophisticated as a Hollywood high-school prom...
Lycovrissi soon has its own troubles. The town is ruled by a Turkish governor called the Agha, and the Agha is ruled by pleasure, good food, good drink, his waterpipe, and above all, his young boy paramour. When the boy is found murdered, the Agha threatens to hang every Greek in the village. The town trembles, tries to pin the crime on the Judas actor...
...situation of Electra is almost that of Hamlet: a royal father's murder, by his wife and her paramour, must be avenged. But the protagonists of the two plays could hardly be more different. Electra, with her brother Orestes, is all clenched purpose and will. Indeed, despite the language barrier, last week's production particularly brought home what fierce, barbaric feeling is channeled by Sophocles' classic art. From the moment the curtains parted to reveal, on a bare, dim-lit stage, the bodingly severe entrance to the palace of Atreus, there was the sense of something ancient...
...Read this letter as if it were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...
...Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash and other goods, helped his paramour's capitalistic father to escape...