Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year to fill a vacant Senate seat. Expectably, Karnes was challenged in the G.O.P. primary this year; unexpectedly, he won. But since advocating "fewer farmers" during a debate, he seems to have lost momentum. He is likely to be beaten by Bob Kerrey, a former Governor, former Debra Winger boyfriend and Viet Nam veteran...
...woman was a resident of an apartment complex on Chauncy St., near the Harvard Police Dept., according to several tenants of the complex. They said it appeared as though the woman had been cut with pieces of broken glass following a dispute with her boyfriend...
...first time it happened, the couple was arguing over a plate of undercooked eggs. When her boyfriend continued to complain about her culinary skills, Sue, a 32-year-old New York City artist, started to cry. "He couldn't handle it," she recalls. "He grabbed me and shoved me. I was really frightened, and I hit him with my fist." After that, their life together got worse. "His temper escalated. He'd grab my arms and hold me down, or throw things at me: tennis shoes, magazines, a book." She finally walked out, too humiliated to reveal the reason...
...small percentage of these couples engage in clashes that result in broken bones or hospitalization. "I thought there was no way out but death," says Laurie, 31, a student in Eugene, Ore., who used to hide in the closet to escape being battered by her live-in boyfriend. Elaine, a 36- year-old hairdresser in Fort Worth, tried to split up with her boyfriend, only to have him break into her house and brutally beat...
...read in themes," she says. "One year it was black authors. Another year all the books I was supposed to read in college but didn't. This is my spiritual summer." Her current fave: A Course in Miracles, a spiritual text that offers positive-thinking lessons for life. Her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, a former basketball player, is now based in North Carolina as vice president of a public relations firm; they usually see each other every couple of weeks...