Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to imagine more odious citizens than some of those portrayed in Blind Faith. The villain of Fatal Vision had a perverse stature and a demonic intelligence that are totally lacking in McGinniss's Robert Marshall. His fabrications and the entreaties recorded on love cassettes to his mistress suggest a ludicrous absence of self-awareness. Marshall's low animal cunning hits bottom when he exploits his sons' conflict between filial loyalty and the truth about their mother's death. McGinniss makes the Marshall boys' loss of innocence the emotional center of an otherwise lurid and coldhearted book...
Much of Europe joined in the snickering last week after Papandreou flaunted his ample young mistress at a European Community summit meeting for which he was host on the Greek island of Rhodes. Photos of the enraptured and grandfatherly Prime Minister with a miniskirted Liani were splashed from London to Istanbul, where the Turkish daily Hurriyet called Papandreou an "international laughingstock...
...necessary myth that the artistic director is a one-man band. But of course he has help, and Private View explains clearly how this bulky performing machine keeps going. Fund raiser Larry Lynn tracks Kimberly-Clark for $2,500 worth of free Kleenex. It is ballet mistress Elena Tchernichova who actually produces the"Baryshnikov ballerina." Fraser recognizes and describes the importance of Charles France, Baryshnikov's assistant, to his boss. A brilliant, obsessive fellow, France virtually handed his head, stuffed with dance scholarship and a phenomenal performance memory, to Baryshnikov on a plate. Often his erudition was crucial; a Soviet...
...crooked Texas Ranger can be misplaced, almost unnoticed, in one , corner. A dominant central figure might hold all of this together, but the novel's heroine, Texas newspaperwoman Betsy Throckmorton, is something less than the gale-force wind that is needed, and her role becomes that of an agreeable mistress of ceremonies...
...contrast, China Forbes is deadly serious and heart-wrenching as Juan's 16-year-old mistress. Her bluesy voice lends real anguish to the scene where Eva kicks her out. Forbes is clearly an up and coming Harvard star...