Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If this new marital gravitas were simply a church-based phenomenon, it would not be a phenomenon at all; the clergy has traditionally attempted to shore up the moral foundations of people's private lives. But a growing recognition that marriages are not to be entered into-or dissolved-lightly...
Several people have gone so far as to suggest imposing a waiting period for marriage licenses, modeled after gun laws. "Both kinds of licenses," explains historian Glenda Riley, author of Divorce: An American Tradition, "create a volatile situation." And just last week, a group of mostly female state lawmakers in...
In 1993, 2.3 million couples-in living rooms and city halls, in churches and synagogues and backyards, on mountaintops and while scuba diving-performed that most optimistic of human rituals and got married. That same year, 1.2 million couples agreed, officially, that their marriages could not be saved. Again in...
He is, in many ways, a sympathetic character. Clinton supports his mother during a difficult divorce from--and remarriage to--the abusive Roger Clinton. He is a good friend who stays in touch with the people he meets.
You have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market--all hoopskirts, candlelight, good deeds and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a...