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...bohemian with thick curly hair and dark, warm eyes, bedroom eyes. They became lovers, sharing classes, textbooks and his father's disapproval. In 1902 they had an illegitimate daughter, who disappeared. Albert and Mileva married. Revolution was in the air, and they were the first modern couple. For pillow talk they had electrodynamics and atomic kinetics. In 1905 Einstein published a trio of brilliant papers in a single issue of the journal Annalen der Physik, among them the theory of relativity with its subversive notions of elastic space- time and interchangeable matter and energy. Another elucidated the quantum theory...
Director Howard Davies, who staged Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, is British and, perhaps as a result, the accents are from Mars. Otherwise there is nothing to fault, from William Dudley's pillow-strewn, louvered-door set to Mark Henderson's offstage fireworks. Film veteran Charles Durning brings beguiling malice to Big Daddy, capturing the crass vitality of this aging self-made entrepreneur, while Polly Holliday, Flo on CBS-TV's erstwhile Alice, is all fluttering and giggles and connivance as his soon-to-be widow...
...cozy exchanges are contained in Philip's notebook. Eventually he has to convince his wife that this pillowless pillow talk is between him and an imaginary mistress who appears in a novel in progress. The wife does not buy it. She insists that the woman in the notebook is the living, panting model for her husband's creative effort. His exasperated explanation: "I have been imagining myself, outside of my novel, having a love affair with a character inside my novel...
...motto embroidered on a pillow in Alice Roosevelt Longworth's sitting room said, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me" . . . That's certainly not the credo of William A. Henry III, who wrote the main story. But the Pulitzer-prizewinning Henry understands the appeal of a juicy tale . . . "Whenever friends get together in a room," he observes, "the conversation may start out with East Germany or nuclear energy, but it gets around to people's divorces pretty quickly...
...needs no pillow to pad his belly, no rouge to redden his cheeks. And even in the heated subway, a morning's worth of icicles make his department-store beard seem real to the touch...