Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while (hmmm...) fooling around in a Washington hotel with (uh oh!) a White House aide. Two years later, in The American President, Michael Douglas is a widower, which means his bumpy courtship of lobbyist Annette Bening is within the rules. All the same, by letting us follow the happy couple into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come...
This argument is established early in Birthday Letters, when Hughes records meeting Plath, a Fulbright scholar, at Cambridge University in 1956: "I was being auditioned/ For the male lead in your drama." A tempestuous courtship soon gives way to an equally stormy marriage: two ambitious poets--one English and reserved, the other American and outwardly exuberant but secretly troubled--yoked together in an initial ecstasy that eventually subsides into mutual misery. Hughes, in his telling, learns that Plath has brought problems along with her "long, perfect, American legs." He becomes acquainted with her "homicidal/ Hooded stare," her "dybbuk fury...
...months into the couple's courtship, McNutt, who suffered from a congenital kidney disorder, had begun dialysis treatment and learned that he would eventually need a kidney transplant. Zauhar was eager to donate one of her kidneys, but doctors determined she was not a medical match. By December 1994, after McNutt had presented Zauhar with a 3 1/2-carat, $21,500 engagement ring, Dahl stepped forward as a willing and suitable donor with a gentleman's understanding, Dahl says, that McNutt would buy him a life-insurance policy, give him money to compensate for the pay he'd lose while recovering...
...remember thinking," said Charles, with a 19-year-old Diana at his side during a television interview in 1981 after their courtship began, "what a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old she was, and I mean great fun and bouncy and full of life and everything. And I don't know what she thought...
About the only time sharks attack humans on purpose is when their territory is invaded or their courtship rituals are interrupted. And just about the only time they eat humans is when there's lots of blood in the water, after an airplane or ship accident, for example...