Word: divorc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Husband with a wandering eye meets divorcée who has no current attachments. They fly off together on an illicit holiday, fight and joke with each other, and fall in love. Back home again, they set up a mutually convenient rendezvous, a small, snug apartment. The affair, always frazzled, starts to look a little frayed, worn by convention, threatened by guilt and irresolution...
...formula is certainly familiar, but the reaction, in this case, has unexpected impact. The husband is George Segal, by far the most deft American actor of light comedy, as he proved recently in Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love (TIME, June 25); the divorcée is Glenda Jackson, whose virtuosity and energy dazzle. Together they make an elegant pair of amorous antagonists, their smooth skills bringing great fun and fresh surprise to the sort of material that can always use a good professional refurbishing...
...Retired Group Captain Peter Townsend, now married and living outside Paris, was in London to promote Duel of Eagles, his newly published book about the Battle of Britain. But he spent most of his time fielding questions about his old romance with Margaret, which flourished although he was a divorcé until the Princess-under pressure from the Church of England-announced in 1955 that she would not marry him. What would he do if he met her by chance during his visit? "I'd just say hello, like anybody else. What would...
...Washington Post to make the equality and dignity of women completely and instinctively meaningful . . . Words like 'divorcee,' 'grandmother,' 'blonde' (or 'brunette') or 'housewife' should be avoided in all stories where, if a man were involved, the words 'divorcé,' 'grandfather,' 'blond' or 'householder' would be inapplicable. In other words, they should be avoided...