Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Joyce Grenfell, 69, lanky, toothy British comedienne known for her hilarious one-woman shows and film portrayals of such dotty spinsters as the policewoman who poses as a girls' school sports mistress in the 1954 farce The Belles of St. Trinian 's; of cancer; in London...
Modigliani has both a sensual solace and a fiery challenge in his English mistress and nude model, Beatrice Hastings. Mary-Joan Negro plays this role with such formidable passion and intelligence as to conjure up Goethe's "eternal feminine" as the root impulse of creation. Wisely, touchingly, Playwright Dennis Mclntyre treats of the artist's self-arming ego and his nightmares of self-doubt. In the title role, Jeffrey de Munn is protean, a mercurial mixture of earth, air, fire and water...
...actually, as millions of viewers knew, things were perfectly normal at the Southfork Ranch: J.R., the eldest son, was in Washington with his newest mistress, and J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen, was bedding down with her sister-in-law's brother. In short, just an ordinary night...
...union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels along with Claretta Petacci, his best-known mistress, his destitute widow returned to her native Forli. There she battled successfully for her right to a government pension, the Christian burial of Mussolini's remains and the return of many former possessions. She also ran a restaurant-inn for the past 15 years. Said she: "With...
...Wall Street player today is also not like the 1929 Fifth Avenue cook who quit because her mistress would not install a stock ticker in the kitchen or the shoeshine boy who passed on to Joseph Kennedy the insider's tip to "buy oil and rails." In the past decade, 7 million small investors have pulled their money out of Wall Street and spent it on real estate, gold or simply a new mink coat. Over half of today's market is dominated by professional investors representing pension funds, insurance companies or mutual funds. They have better financial...