Word: inamorata
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...geometry in Hollywood's long history. In the current quadrangle (the old eternal triangle is from squaresville), Natalie's most attentive admirer is Warren Beatty, her leading man in Splendor, who was long the fiance of Britain's Joan Collins. Joan, in turn, is the current inamorata of Wagner, who is also a good friend of Warren...
...from five months' imprisonment, admitted to having had an affair with the singer, but denied being an accomplice to murder. "I never saw her face after the death of the baby. I was having a new affair, but we separated in a friendly way." Asked about his new inamorata, the old lover smiled broadly, "Let's forget about that." The audience laughed...
...live with an actress and be a banker, wound up a grocer and quickly broke with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent passion for a majestic Italian beauty spanned a decade during which he never saw the "sublime wench." After eleven years he finally noted: "On September 21, at half-past eleven...
...Sunday's laughingstock, & abused like a pickpocket." The abuse came from the parents of a master mason's daughter named Jean Armour, with whom Burns "had got deeply in love ... of which proofs were every day arising more & more to view. I would gladly have covered my Inamorata from the darts of Calumny with the conjugal Shield...
Herter left the foundering Independent in 1928. For two years he was a lecturer on international affairs at Harvard, and could have stayed on had he chosen, but by that time another inamorata was beckoning. "He'd get a faraway look in his eyes," recalls an old friend, "and you'd have to speak to him three times before he came out of his trance." The faraway look meant that all the wandering, thinking and studying had finally focused on a decision to go into politics...