Word: paramours
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Barley Grains. Nor was she angry with Jung Bahadur. Instead, she assembled all the nobles of Nepal and accused them of plotting to murder her paramour. Obligingly, Jung Bahadur helped her kill 55 nobles and 500 lesser folk. The Queen was so pleased that she made Jung Bahadur Prime Minister. He knew what to do next. Two months later he exiled the King and Queen, and put their minor son on the throne at Kathmandu...
Fair Rosamond (Henry's well-known paramour), whose famous hardships in a bower have inspired romantic writers for ages, gets only cold glances from the author. The story of the jealous queen's proffer of the dagger and poison bowl is discarded; for Rosamond, "flower of the world," died young in pious retirement. Still, Miss Kelly captures both the glitter and the solidity of the Middle Ages...
Margaret Leighton gives an insistent performance as the paramour. Her lover compares her to "a child banging an empty spoon on a table" before his emotions overcome his scientific approach, and this analogy fits her role aptly...
...Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
Death stared from the cadavers of mighty buildings; the smashed, charred bones of the Reichstag (see cut); the battle-broken Chancellery, where Adolf Hitler and his paramour, Eva Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice. The stench of death rose too from corpses still rotting under debris, from the corpse-clogged Liitzow Canal, from hasty, shallow graves dug in every park and Platz...