Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As rock marriages go, it was granite-solid, with just one major public spat in 22 years. It even survived a bankruptcy and a fire-destroyed home. But now JANE PETTY, wife of paler-version-of-Bob-Dylan TOM PETTY, has filed for divorce. In an interview last year, Petty...
A character named Paul Theroux moves chronologically, chapter by chapter, through a life that is identical in all external details to the biographical sketches familiar to author Paul Theroux's readers. First comes his stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the mid-1960s, followed by a period...
Ever since his collection of moral tales, The Book of Virtues, began its 88-week ride on the New York Times best-seller list, Bennett has plumbed and profited from America's anxiety over the decline in standards of moral behavior. The success of his first Virtues anthology spawned two...
But if Bennett won't gladhand, neither does he pander. He frequently challenges his middle- and upper-class audiences, pointing out that men in the ghetto aren't the only ones walking out on their families these days. In a speech to the Christian Coalition, Bennett urged its members to...
Bud Collins, the renowned tennis writer and commentator, immediately dubbed the 5-ft. 6-in. phenomenon "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" Hingis. Like Milan Kundera's novel, Hingis was conceived in Czechoslovakia. She was named by her tennis-loving parents for the national heroine and acquaintance Martina Navratilova. By the...