Word: househusbands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goodman describes in "Variant Text" an agnostic but rigidly observant househusband who wears an Abortion Rights button to Sabbath services and responds to a colleague's questions reagarding his faith with, "When you read a book, do you have to know the author to enjoy...
...film makes extensive use of John's "home movies," most of which were made by professionals. These offer a pleasant glimpse into John's househusband years that seems to refute the allegations in Albert Goldman's scurrilous new biography that John was less than a devoted father to Sean, or that he was anorexic, stoned or unhappy during those years. But the film fails to convince because it glosses over this period, just as it glosses over much of John's life in its headlong rush to condense all that John was into 90 minutes...
...released a new album, Double Fantasy, on which he and his wife Yoko Ono alternately performed love songs. Suddenly Lennon was dominating the airwaves again with his hit single from the album, Starting Over. And he was talking to reporters, telling interviewers about his life as a househusband, baking bread and caring for his and Yoko's young son Sean. That he should be cut down at the beginning of this new flowering, two months after his 40th birthday, just when he was starting over, seemed an intolerable irony...
...have a little difficulty being a househusband," says Larry, who struggles to balance the powerful image of older, more macho times with current necessity. "But I love being with the kids. I also believe it is good for them to see me doin' housework, so they don't keep believin' that outside work belongs only to the man and inside is the woman." This is quite a change in attitude for a man who insisted his wife quit nursing school after he and Joy married...
...alumni of '56 include a cattle rancher, the chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, a philosopher, professors, the director of the National Gallery of Art, a priest, a librarian, a lumber wholesaler, an ambassador, a television correspondent, an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a state senator, a pathologist, a househusband, a pilot, a salesman of women's shoes, and a mediator of environmental disputes...