Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antigone vein of Greek tragedy. There are only three characters: Dynamane, a recently widowed noblewoman who has decided to die from starvation in her late husband's tomb; Doto, her feeble-witted and man-hungry servant who has decided to die from physical and sexual starvation with her mistress; and Tegeus, or as he is called by Dynamane, Cromus, a steedly Hoplite who blunders into the whole affair and falls in love with Dynamane. Using this simple plot and character framework, Fry works much mischief on the classical tragic genre with overblown and thoroughly ludicrous speeches on honor, fate, love...
Skip Roberts, the Guyanese assistant commissioner of crime, told Neff that the first troopers arriving in Jonestown had found Jones' house ransacked and a large safe standing both open and empty. Two of the victims in the house had been shot: one of Jones' bodyguards and Jones' mistress, Annie Moore. Most of the eight men suspected of having taken part in the airport ambush also lay dead of poisoning in the house...
...decade he lived openly in a captain's paradise, spending each week with his London mistress and each weekend with his Parisian wife. Finally Sir James Goldsmith, 45, multimillionaire entrepreneur and press lord who controls France's L 'Express, put an end to the domestic balancing act. Having already divorced the former Ginette Lery in September, Sir Jimmy whisked Lady Annabel Birley off for a private wedding ceremony-in Paris of all places. When the couple left Goldsmith's Paris office, Daily Express Photographer Bill Lovelace snapped some pictures. Sir Jimmy ran at him "like...
...irritating Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw, who presided over it for 34 years. Carolyn Hagner Shaw was a subtle and funny arbiter who could savor the preposterous in Washington's manners. Once a woman addressed an urgent query to her: Could she, the woman asked, fulfill...
...what ever happened to those gerbils? They weathered the trip nicely, thank you. So did their mistress...