Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least after Cubism--was sex. The female nude was his obsessive subject. Everything in his pictorial universe, especially after 1920, seemed related to the naked bodies of women. Picasso imposed on them a load of feeling, ranging from dreamy eroticism (as in some of his paintings of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter in the '30s) to a sardonic but frenzied hostility, that no Western artist had made them carry before. He did this through metamorphosis, recomposing the body as the shape of his fantasies of possession and of his sexual terrors. Now the hidden and comparatively decorous puns of Cubism...
...formidable public personality and retained an outspoken interest in politics. He was, at the start and for a long time, an out-front liberal, and--surely swayed by charm and power--eventually added some deep shadows to J.F.K.'s definition of executive privilege. He passed along a mistress to the President, Judith Exner, who was also a favorite of Giancana's. Kennedy used her, but eventually froze Sinatra out of Camelot. Sinatra responded bitterly and swung right. He golfed with Spiro Agnew, sang (wonderfully) at the Nixon White House and partied with the Reagans...
...disclosed his terminal cancer. As Mary later told a psychiatrist, she felt he had died already. "She felt she died too," says Dr. Julie Tybor Moore. Her father has always been a rock, even during his own public whipping. In 1982, an extramarital affair was revealed when his mistress (a former college student of his) brought one of their two children to a hospital after the child was injured in an accident. The hospital requested the father's name, and Schmitz--a church-and-family conservative--then watched his political career wilt...
...betrothed audience members, we can only be glad that Eliot has asked his questions, and it is cathartic to see that the answers (to live in darkness, to honestly accept the costumes of those you would love) do not necessarily lead to happiness. (For example, Chamberlayne's discarded mistress is cannibalized two years later.) The working relationship that the Chamberlaynes develop under the guidance of the "Unidentified Guest" is tragically compromising...
...being replaced by the celebrity, and where once our leaders seemed grander versions of ourselves, now they just looked like us on a giant screen. Nowadays, as we read about the purported telephone messages of a sitting President and listen to the future King of England whisper to his mistress, the power of technology not just to dehumanize but to demystify seems 30 times stronger than even Boorstin predicted...