Having defended two social pariahs - the stepmother in Other People's Children, and then the mistress - I'd been thinking about what society really would like from women now.
He began by thinking he would write about the wives and mistresses of Picasso, the way the artist used art and sex, painting and making love, as metaphors for each other and how the style of his work changed as he changed women--volatile relationships that Dora Maar, herself one of the mistresses, characterized to him as 'first, the plinth, then the doormat".
Can there be, he was thinking, any more costly hostage to fortune than a mistress?
Like refugees from a Noël Coward play, they are unfailingly polite when Edward takes his mistress, Diana, to his London house mistakenly thinking Villy is in the country.
PLEASANTVILLE Jacob Burns Film Center "Frameworks: Art on Film Series," featuring "Chagall: Beyond the Real," "Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet" and "Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine".
"I don't know what I was thinking," he said coldly to her. "Screwing your mistress is one thing, but marrying her? That's political suicide, really".
Mountford, a mistress of understatement, says what everyone else is thinking – without quite saying it – in discussion with Simon Ambrose, the eventual winner of series three, over his plans for a new building next to the River Thames.
I tell him I couldn't help thinking of the infamous story of him making an excuse to leave his honeymoon with his first wife early to be with his mistress, Monckton.
If she is a doll — Orso amuses himself by thinking — she is a slightly battered one, dragged around by the legs, left out in the rain, undressed with the cruel energy of an excessively loving little mistress.
Nora & Yseult were English actresses, famous throughout the world for a radio duologue between haughty mistress & fast-thinking maid, broadcast by BBC.
