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...romance for the ages: an heiress to the Carnegie fortune and daughter of a yachtsman, socialite Polly Lauder fell in love with boxer Gene Tunney, a heavyweight champion with a taste for classical literature. After a secret courtship, they made national headlines on their engagement in 1928. The couple was married for 50 years, until Gene's death in 1978. Polly Lauder Tunney...
...Senate is a lousy launching pad for sainthood, a place of compromise and backslaps, of hidden doors that lead to gilded rooms where the real work gets done. To succeed is to succumb, often to the courtship of big-ticket donors...
...would-be suitors all skedaddle once they see her hideous pig face. Max (James McAvoy, “Atonement”), a gambler enlisted to help get a photo of Penelope, develops a touching relationship with her, despite the fact that she is hidden behind a mirror during their courtship while he is trying to exploit her. They immediately click when she catches him trying to steal an expensive first edition of a book. In the film’s best scene, Penelope devises a scheme to figure out which instrument Max plays but will not reveal. The montage...
...small towns alike, there is growing evidence that the national obsession with sex is subsiding. Five-speed vibrators, masturbation workshops, freshly discovered erogenous zones and even the one-night stand all seem to be losing their allure. Veterans of the revolution, some wounded, some merely bored, are reinventing courtship and romance and discovering, often with astonishment, that they need not sleep together on the first or second date. Many individuals are even rediscovering the traditional values of fidelity, obligation and marriage. Or as one San Francisco sex therapist, Lonnie Barbach, puts it, "We've been going through a Me generation...
...Support eroded first among older, traditional conservatives repelled by Sarkozy's private life: his unabashed relish for wealth and famous friends; his public anguish over and finally divorce from his wife Cécilia; and his courtship of and, less than four months later, marriage to former top model Carla Bruni. But the latest polls show the leading cause of voter complaint to be Sarkozy's failure to deliver on the reforms he hyped to the heavens during his first six months in office...