Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What sets Larry pondering the question of where he and the world are heading is the horror of World War I trench warfare. Mustered out, he rejects a career in the stock market and marriage to Isabel (Catherine Hicks), his bitchy, materialistic fiancée, in order to embrace the exemplary poverty and thoughtfulness of Left Bank Paris in the '20s. Thereafter, a great deal of breathless plotting contrives to keep him in touch both with Isabel and with Sophie (Theresa Russell), another, more sensitive, therefore more self-destructive girl he left behind. It is not merely that...
...portly grandmother whose born-again piety has won over some of her toughest fellow inmates. She is also a convicted killer, sentenced to death row six years ago for killing her fiancé with arsenic. Margie Velma Barfield, 51, a onetime private nurse, also confessed to poisoning her mother and two elderly patients in her care. When North Carolina's Democratic Governor James Hunt, who is challenging conservative Republican Jesse Helms for his Senate seat, rejected Barfield's plea for clemency last week, his decision added emotionally charged elements to an already close, tense race...
McKinney lives, he says amiably, by being "a kept man." His fiancée, Sheri Rhodes, is the archery coach at Arizona State, where McKinney is an unsalaried assistant coach. He says that he may eventually do more studying at Arizona State, concentrating on sports medicine and psychology. In the meantime, money obviously is not a great motivation and, surprisingly, in his analysis winning is not either. He takes what he calls "a Zenistic view." A single well-executed shot is what stirs him. "You have to be psyched up, yet calm and as motionless as possible. Timing is vital...
...twelve and my fiancée was two. For me, Kennedy's death was a shattering experience that she cannot completely share. When I told her that John Jr. had saluted his father's casket, the gesture meant nothing to her. Yet that little boy's salute still stirs me. For the rest of my life, Kennedy's photograph will hang in my home. But I know that as I get older, fewer people will understand...
...long and healthy life. On three childhood birthdays she also visited Shinto shrines, clapping her hands and clanging bells to awaken the gods so she could pray to them. In 1980 Keiko used Buddhist omens to select a propitious wedding day. But she exchanged Christian vows with her fiancé in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's elegant hotels. Keiko, now 26 and a mother, expects that some day her ashes will be interred in a Buddhist cemetery, where her descendants will annually return with a Buddhist priest to pray in her honor...