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Daughter and father next fetch up in the English seacoast resort of Blackpool, where Billy has caught on with a music-hall troupe. He gets in trouble there too, falling for the company's soubrette, stage-named Maggie Paramour, who is married to a violinist in the same motley ensemble. Ellen, by this time nubile and knowing beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After...
...Common Pursuit depicts five mismatched undergraduates at Cambridge (the British playwright's alma mater) who become intimates while putting out a literary magazine. Most of the story is their post-Cambridge life: two remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung...
...course of true love never did run smooth, but the affairs of confessed Soviet Agent Svetlana Ogorodnikova have proved particularly bumpy. Over the past two weeks, Ogorodnikova has disrupted the Los Angeles espionage trial of her former paramour, ex-FBI Agent Richard Miller, with sobbing assertions of his and her innocence. "Richard is not a traitor of his country," she told the judge in chambers, and "I am not Russian spy." Instead, she portrayed herself as a boozy, lovelorn emigre who rebounded to Miller after she was jilted by his colleague, former FBI Counterintelligence Agent John Hunt. Hunt has denied...
This use of dark and light in association with loves permits Shakespeare to promote the romance of Romeo and Juliet to cosmic proportions. The lovers, as the Prologue informs us, are star-crossed. Juliet being referred to by her paramour as a "sun." The figures of Romeo and Juliet are like "Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light...
...Morgan's tawdry yet strangely pathetic accounts of Alfred Bloomingdale's sexual depravity, Judge Christian E. Markey Jr. last week dismissed most of her multimillion-dollar palimony suit, asserting that the relationship between the millionaire and her was "no more than that of a wealthy, older, married paramour and a young well-paid mistress." Whether or not she was more than a mistress, he appears to have been the master. During sworn pretrial testimony, Morgan claimed that Bloomingdale would bind several women with his neckties, beat them with a belt and "stand there and watch the girls...