Word: divorcee
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At a time when 1 out of every 3 British marriages ends in divorce, however, the Yorks are hardly an unusual case. "I think the appeal of the monarchy is precisely that these are ordinary people with ordinary problems," said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a British constitutional expert. He...
During the 1936 constitutional crisis over the engagement of King Edward VIII -- later the Duke of Windsor -- and American divorce Wallis Warfield, Winston Churchill growled, "Why shouldn't the King be allowed to marry his cutie?" Playwright Noel Coward shot back, "Because England doesn't wish for a Queen Cutie...
But country's message makes the music belong, first and foremost, to the baby boomers now coping with being in their 40s. Twenty-year-olds, says record executive Bowen, "are having their first romance, and we're talking about the third divorce over here." If rock is about feral impulses...
Country's appeal is not a function of the leading economic indicators, however. It draws its power mostly from people like Jyne Kubas, 52, an Alan Jackson fan who is not embarrassed to say she still hurts from her divorce 10 years ago. " 'Cowboys don't die and heroes don...
In our daily lives, we believe in a great many small secular millenniums; one of them is success. Romance is a kind of millennium too, and we cling to it with amazing fidelity, despite sexual freedom and divorce -- the triumph, as Dr. Johnson said about second marriages, of hope over...