Word: paramour
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...situation of Electra is almost that of Hamlet: a royal father's murder, by his wife and her paramour, must be avenged. But the protagonists of the two plays could hardly be more different. Electra, with her brother Orestes, is all clenched purpose and will. Indeed, despite the language barrier, last week's production particularly brought home what fierce, barbaric feeling is channeled by Sophocles' classic art. From the moment the curtains parted to reveal, on a bare, dim-lit stage, the bodingly severe entrance to the palace of Atreus, there was the sense of something ancient...
...Read this letter as if it were my love testament," wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, "because it is the last one that you will get ... If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free myself of this amorous vise-remember how you hurt me-those were waves of revolt...
...Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash and other goods, helped his paramour's capitalistic father to escape...
...Voice of the Turtle"; a young couple named Coralie and Alex live together in a New York apartment without the formality of marriage because the girl wishes to retain her independence. Complications set in when a former hometown beau comes to visit Coralie, who forces her reluctant paramour into agonizing respectability in order to preserve her reputation back home...
...Long Dark Hall (Cusick International; United Artists) is a long, dark movie about an erring husband (Rex Harrison) who blunders his way to the edge of the gallows. Finding his paramour murdered in her room, Harrison runs home in a panic, burns his bloodstained suit, lies to the police and spends most of the film being badgered by a prosecutor. Harrison's wife, played appealingly by Lilli Palmer, has two grisly scenes with the actual murderer (Anthony Dawson), a beady-eyed psychopath. But Directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck are so entranced with brooding, shadowy photography that most...