Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many Americans have tuned out the presidential campaign, voters in Massachusetts are holding their breath, almost reluctant to choose between Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican Governor William Weld in their race for the Senate. Massachusetts voters are feeling a little like children caught in a divorce. Instead of...
They're showing up at movie theaters en masse--some, like the 15 members of a women's group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in stretch limos and evening gowns. They're calling in to drive-time radio stations, like Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-FM, which solicited listeners' divorce horror stories...
"We're talking about betrayal," says First Wives author Olivia Goldsmith, who was herself downsized by divorce. "These guys are stealing not only the present but also the past. And after they steal part of your life, then they steal your property." After Goldsmith wrote the best-selling novel in...
It would be easy to make fun of First Wives but a mistake to miss it. Once you accept the fact that Frank Capra is dead and that Hollywood is remaking The Day of the Jackal in case the original was insufficiently bloody, First Wives is one of the best...
In 1977 the onetime Miss America runner-up launched a successful crusade to repeal a gay-rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. Though the Christian right held her up as its poster girl, her Bible beating turned off the public at large. Along with her popularity, she eventually lost a...