Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What keeps the two so fit? Certainly not romance. The doctor has an eye for the well-turned ankle ("Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department") but marries respectably. The lifelong bachelor Holmes has neither chick nor child. "Women are never to be entirely trusted," he believes, "not the best of them...
Minkow made himself over too. A scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...
...polo-loving Charles, 38, and his much younger, more pop-oriented wife have been played up in the papers for months. After spotting Di at rock concerts and discos with a number of male escorts, reporters zeroed in on a single putative love interest: Philip Dunne, 28, a London bachelor who works at the investment banking firm of S.G. Warburg. Never mind that Dunne already has a pretty girlfriend named Katya Grenfell. Young, successful and with a vague resemblance to Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman), Dunne fit the role perfectly. POW! SUPERMAN PHIL IS DIANA'S NEW PAL blared the News...
Many of the delegates expected Washington's fellow Virginians to provide direction. In the absence of Jefferson, the state's intellectual leadership inevitably came from "Jemmy" Madison, who was to become "the Father of the Constitution." He was shy and soft-spoken, a slender bachelor about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, and, according to one account, "no bigger than a half a piece of soap." His father was a wealthy landowner (and slaveholder), and Madison never had to work for a living. He studied philosophy at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), became an early supporter of the Revolution...
...give or take about six encores, it's all over. Scottish Singer Jean Redpath has sung in her lovely, clear voice, the Hawaiians have aloha'd, Guitarists Atkins and Leo Kottke have laid down some elegant tunes, Buster has woofed one last time before going on unemployment, the Norwegian bachelor farmers have made their final appearance at the Chatterbox Cafe, and Keillor has carried on shamelessly. "I'm going away, for to stay a little while," he has sung, "but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles." Does he mean it? The ON THE AIR sign turns...