Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dobelle, the young, pretty mistress of U.S. protocol at the State Department, announced the signing in a firm full voice. Pens glided smoothly across the pages, and in a few minutes Carter looked up from the last signature and said, "Let's have a handshake." Applause rose again as the men came together and clasped in a three-way grip like a debating team that had just won the match...
Freedom is a capricious and demanding mistress. The defense of her integrity is an unrelenting vigilance which takes the form of a continuous negotiation of the terms for her life. So it has been since the medieval, monastic beginnings of our modern universities...
...affair with his secretary that she follows the woman to the spa. There the mystery writer plots, as neatly as she would one of her novels, a crime that will 1) put her out of her romantic misery and 2) wreak suitable vengeance on her husband and his mistress. This is as plausible as any other explanation of Christie's disappearance, though no more persuasive than any other that might be dreamed up by a clever person confronting the puzzle. What is persuasive, or at least highly appealing, is the tentative, restorative relationship that develops between Christie...
Giuliana's response is a period of gloom and fainting spells, followed by a livelier period of vigorous lovemaking with a handsome young novelist. Tullio dallies with his mistress, erring with her on fur in one fireside scene the lavishness of which approaches parody. But when the final break is at hand, he discovers that it is Giuliana who fascinates him. He lets Teresa rumble off to Paris by herself and forgives Giuliana, admitting that she has as much right as he to a lover. Since the novelist has by this time died of a tropical disease picked...
Alas, she is pregnant by the dead writer. This Tullio's fatal male honor cannot stand, and when a son is born to Giuliana he exposes the baby to cold winter air and allows him to die. Then, after a moody conversation with his mistress, he shoots himself through the heart. Teresa, dressed appropriately in a black gown-though no one was dead when she put it on-walks unsympathetically past his body and away from the camera. She stops motionless in the middle distance, an elegant figure on a path framed by trees, as the credits roll...