Word: housework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life is new convention based on socially certified licentiousness. Formed from the same society that molded her marriage, Marianne's new style of freedom can't redefine the roles of women and men. She's happy, in a way, like a new bride entering a locked-up marriage of housework and kids and pain and a few hard fucks, so expectant that she never hears the door click shut. From any stultification, some discontent must grow...
...mean microcosm for the sunset of Little England. Bernard, it appears, had to retire from his regiment 35 years ago after a homosexual episode with-yes-Shorty. What bothers Marigold about Shorty, however, is not this scandal, but the fact that although he contributes much of the money and housework and good sense that keep Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage shuffling along, he is not upper class...
...girl friend and I got her and her family jobs on post--not fucking, you know, but housework and stuff. Anyway, we drove into the village together and picked up four whores and explained the deal to them and they said OK and I brought them back to the post. The lieutenant had friends at the base hospital and they kept the whores there two weeks, shooting them full of penicillin, and cleaned them up. Then we took them back to the company and built four rooms for them right next to the Club, with their names over the door...
Role Reversals. Other men object to the sheer drudgery of housework. "I can't stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...
...David Eisenhower concedes that Watergate is taking its toll in his marriage to Julie. "It's hard on Julie," he says. "In her public appearances she always has to be friendly. At home she will bark at me now and then." Mostly, it seems, about sharing the housework. "No matter how hard I try to reassure her that letting down on household chores doesn't mean I feel any less affection, I get the sense she can't understand that." Meanwhile, Tricia and Eddie Cox have had to endure a three-week geographical separation. From Christmas...