Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...G.D.R. Fiona surfaces with a flourish in the current novel, her fans will be glad to learn, leaving two important issues unresolved. One is whether she was a real defector or, possibly, a truly extraordinary double agent. The other is how long Gloria, Samson's newly acquired young mistress, will be willing to stay home and baby- sit the teenagers...
Stieglitz finally married his mistress in 1924. But several years later, he became infatuated with a younger woman. A series of domestic and professional skirmishes followed; O'Keeffe suffered a breakdown and stopped painting. It was two years before she saw a way out: "If I can keep my courage and leave Stieglitz," she told a friend, "I plan to go West...
...start with Shakespeare: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is one of the more romantic lines of the more romantic sonnets of Shakespeare. Blumenthal uses the line as a possible theme for the '80s generation, one that refuses to idealize love and lovers. The poem goes on to list a variety of perfect qualities the mistress (or possibly, male lover) does not have...
...early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write a very illuminating chapter on his military career in Los Angeles," she later revealed to a friend, "with photographs, letters from voice teachers, and photographers...
...robust new movie -- shows his face and speaks. It is an entrance angled to register awe for Kenneth Branagh. But how much awe can a 28-year-old actor, little known outside Britain and directing his first film, expect to inspire? Branagh recalls that when Judi Dench, who plays Mistress Quickly, first saw this scene, "she laughed in my face and said, 'I've never seen an entrance like that! Who do you think you are?' " He retorted, "The film is not called Mistress Quickly the Fourth." No, but it might be called King...