Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes the form of a chance meeting with her father's Russian mistress, Tamara. To Tamara, who has lived precariously for most of her 35 years, Papa Noris is an anchor of security, though he never guesses how often and strangely she drags anchor. For Tamara is a Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks...
...revolt is short and bitter. Humbly and penitently, she returns. From then on, Hélene is made to suffer for every moment of pleasure. Tamara finally takes her to a Lesbian nightclub and abandons her to the pawings of a frumpy rival...
...glossiest in Manhattan nightclub and summer-resort society. One weekend, in the summer of 1950, while the radio hums with reports of war in Korea, Carlotta throws a party in East Hampton for a speculator in money and models, a fellow-traveling movie director, an interior decorator with Lesbian appetites, and the decorator's religious husband and soul-sick daughter. Son Pete finds them all disagreeable, but can't quite...
...Caroline de Bièvre arrives in Paris early in the spring of 1789, she is "16, unkissed and avid for life." Some five years and 311 pages later, she has finished with one husband and four lovers (a couple of would-be seducers escape her), flirted with a Lesbian, inspired three killings, saved her pretty, blonde neck from the guillotine and sailed, still unjaded, for the U.S. After a sale of 300,000 copies in France, Novelist Cecil Saint-Laurent's account of all this has now been published in the U.S. It may bring out customers...
Marcello's downfall begins when he zealously volunteers for a role in a political murder plot, and funks it. At the same time he finds that Giulia, his angel of normality, has her Lesbian side. But he really goes to pieces when he finds that the man he shot years ago is alive & kicking. Marcello lives just long enough after that to realize that his whole life has been twisted by "a thing that never happened." Then he dies in an air raid...