Word: exactress
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...parody in his short story, Ivy Day in the Committee Room (1905) published 14 years after Parnell's death. Joyce Marlow's antidote to Parnellism-the stuff of which greening statues in the park and old candy-box covers are made-is sobriety. Mrs. Marlow is an exactress who did not abandon drama when she left the stage. Yet her biography of Katharine (and inevitably, Parnell) weighs evidence with the scruples of a professional historian and character with the caution of a professional skeptic. The historian's fussing over documentation may be too detailed...
Jacqueline Susann, the exactress turned author, has just delivered herself of another novel. Her earlier books, Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine, "are about ancient history," Susann feels. In Once Is Not Enough she is now telling the story of a "really contemporary girl," a stage and movie producer's daughter who spends most of the book trying to avoid the drugs, sex and high living all around her. Meanwhile, Susann has made a startling discovery: many girls are still innocents, "still have illusions." How did she find this out? Partly by chatting with contestants...
...situation to be borne with stiff upper lips and all that? Not at all. A Cornish counterattack is mounted by an aged but indomitable exactress who runs a sort of orphanage. Her rustic crew of local stalwarts prevails by deploying the hackneyed virtues of the English character: sly eccentricity, calculated insult, a modicum of violence...
...suffering assembles, and more verbal feline ferocity has not gone zinging across a Broadway stage since Clare Boothe Luce wrote The Women. Three divorcees have arranged for their ex-husbands to take the children for an outing in honor of the day. Louise (Brenda Vaccaro) is an earthy exactress with a tongue like a wood file. Marian (Marian Seldes) is a gawky swan of a woman who can deliver lines with the edgily lethal politesse of a Boston blueblood. Estelle (Jennifer Salt) is the quintessential waif, an orphan who married an orphan. The three drink, and discuss...
Though in the divorce his name had been linked with such luminaries as Marlene Dietrich and Gail Russell, Wayne had a different altar ego. His new wife ?like the others?was of Latin extraction: a Peruvian exactress named Pilar Palette. "Just happenstance," he claims. "Whenever I've had free time I've been in Latin America...