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Three stories brush against the private vagaries of love. In Sins of the Third Age, a couple eagerly plan their retirement to a farm in Italy. Then the husband announces, "I've met somebody." The wife is stunned but ultimately agrees to live out their remaining years together, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of Privacy and Politics | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Such members follow a devotional life of daily Communion, weekly confession, daily prayers and readings, and regular extended talks with an assigned spiritual director. Numeraries also practice bodily mortification such as fasting or early rising. Periodically, there are also brief sessions of self-flagellation with long braided strings and periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Building God's Global Castle | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

About Vicki Morgan's death, however, far too little is clear. No one disputes that she was clubbed to death in her bed with a baseball bat last July. Her roommate of three weeks, Marvin Pancoast, an emotionally disturbed Hollywood habitue and avowed homosexual, walked into a Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mistress's Life and Death | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

The prosecutors say that they will fight to prevent Pancoast's attorneys from turning the defendant's murder trial into an expose of the relationship between Vicki Morgan and Alfred Bloomingdale. There is no evidence of a conspiracy behind Morgan's sad, shabby death. But the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mistress's Life and Death | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

The trouble began in 1981 after Guinn, a divorcee with four children, began seeing former Collinsville Mayor Pat Sharp, a divorced man. Confronted by the three elders who govern the church, Guinn admitted to an affair. Her confession, she says, was to remain confidential. When she refused their demand to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marian and the Elders | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

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