Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CINEMA Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tintypical Sicilian smoothie.
The marriage lasted only 14 months. Recalls Bersbach, now a Chicago printing executive: "You know how these divorces are. Somebody testified that they saw me slap her twice. Actually, I've never slapped a woman in my life. She was a darn attractive girl, very vivacious, but she liked...
Routine Charges. This marriage ended in divorce on Jan. 24, 1047, based on charges of "general indignities" that are routine in Missouri. Durie claimed that Desloge was "cold and indifferent," refused to take her "to places of amusement," told her that "he did not love her, that he did not...
At that time, Kennedy was 29, a freshman Congressman and an eminently eligible bachelor. Durie was 30, separated and soon to be divorced from Desloge. The two were linked romantically in at least one society column. Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Charles Ventura on Jan. 20, 1947...
Divorce-Italian Style. In the U.S., when a man wants a divorce, he goes to court; in Italy, so the wise guys say, he goes to a gunsmith. Why? For two reasons: 1) divorce is illegal in Catholic Italy; 2) the penalty for a "crime of honor" (the murder of...