Word: inamorata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SALINGER His onetime inamorata will auction private letters. Upside: the Salinger canon doubles
...heat of an often disappointed perfectionist. In his signature role, the private eye in the classic film noir Out of the Past, Mitchum grimly accepts doom as the price of sexual obsession and lights his passage to it with flaring wisecracks. "I don't want to die," his inamorata cries. "Neither do I, baby," Mitchum snaps. "But if I have to, I'm gonna die last." As inadvertent epitaphs go, it's pretty good. For one suspects that Bob Mitchum's spirit will live on in those impious corners of the heart where we treasure our more gallant and stylish...
...biggest deficiency, and it is a serious one, is that Susa never quite delivers the musical climax that the material demands. It is quite canny to stage simultaneously the death of Valmont and his inamorata, Madame de Tourvel, aptly illustrating their bond beyond the grave. But here, and in the final scene, when Merteuil is snubbed, shunned and ruined by the pox, the music needs to be bolder, richer; the composer must make clear exactly how he feels about what has happened to his characters as, say, Berg does at the end of Wozzeck...
...ankles just when they shouldn't. Their Devil is Pegleg, a swallow- tailed lowlife who learned his wiles behind the footlights of some sleazy Weimar cabaret, a la Joel Grey. They are surrounded by weirdos who make the Addams Family look like the Waltons. Among them: Wilhelm's inamorata, the robotically hysterical Kathchen; her fright-wigged father Bertram; an overbearing uncle who, in a hilarious non sequitur, tells the story of how Hemingway sold the movie rights to The Snows of Kilimanjaro; and a dead ancestor in Boris Karloff makeup whose only advice to the living is, "Do what thou...
...Bush's no-first-sleaze rule, Matalin drafted a sophomoric memo that mocked Clinton's girth, branded his campaign "lower than a snake's belly" and noted his problem with "bimbo eruptions." Carville, who serves as one of Clinton's top strategists and phrasemakers, quickly fired back, calling his inamorata's memo "new evidence that the Bush campaign is out of control." Carville, obviously pained by the situation, added, "You can hate the sin and love the sinner...