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...August afternoon in 1985, Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests...
...that soon, I suspect, I'll be earning miles from using the same brand of diaper, from walking or talking or not going by air (but charging long-distance bus rides to my credit card). Even the woman who runs the largest mail-order-bride service on the U.S. mainland accepts credit cards: now I can earn miles by choosing a wife...
...late." Scarves aflutter, jewelry ajangle, her hair aflame with henna, she has just breezed in from Egypt and a past everyone once shared along the Nile. She copes by constant movement, outrageous talk and copious quantities of alcohol and tobacco. Monica (Julie Walters), the divorced mother of the bride, is all domestic bustle, dark thoughts held at bay by her many tasks -- remaking her awful old wedding dress for her daughter, considering the canapes for the reception. Mrs. Monro (Joan Plowright), the mother of the groom, sleeps a lot, awakening to express in a rumbly purr her dismay with just...
...Matthew Solomon chokes to death his new bride, Lisa, after a Christmas Eve argument in Huntington Station and disposes of her body in garbage bags...
Perspective, November 1993, Vol. 10, No. 8: On page 4, a clip in the "Salmagundi" section discusses the case of Woburn Vending's sexist pinball game, "Machine: Bride of Pinbot." The editors wonder, "...what other types of conduct Woburn Vending would justify based on its profit potential. 'Machine: Club of the Sealbot,' anyone?" Of course, Perspective would be even more horrified by Machine: Final Club of the Cool People...