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...widower Rhodes married a 48-year-old, thickly mascaraed Texan with a record of multiple divorces. Aunt Anne, as she was called, had a talent for intimidation and exploitation. As her husband stood by ineffectually, she forced Richard and Stanley to do the heavy housework, forage for walnuts and , sell them door to door. Not allowed to use the toilet during the night, Richard surreptitiously relieved himself in jars. Beatings were common, and hunger constant. While Aunt Anne and her husband ate steak, the boys were fed rotting hard-boiled eggs...
...mythic bad boy mimed, most recently, by Nicolas Cage in Wild at Heart. There is the great white whale with the red neck harpooned by Albert Goldman in his notorious unauthorized biography. Or there is the sweet prince of dreams, who provides the sound track for the heroine's housework in Alice Hoffman's recent Seventh Heaven...
...Conner household on Roseanne is hardly an abode of peace and contentment either. Mom has a constant chip on her shoulder -- about her job, her housework, her nagging kids. "They're all mine," she says in a moment of reflection after a Thanksgiving get-together. "Of course, I'd trade any one of them for a dishwasher...
...very happy" in their marriage. Four of five said they would wed the same person again, given the chance. Three out of four described their spouses as physically attractive. According to the poll, the three key factors in making a marriage happy are communication, cooperation in child rearing and housework and having a romantic image of one's partner. Some 20% or more said they occasionally indulged in such erotic activities as taking showers with their spouses, making love outdoors and watching X-rated videos together. By modest statistical margins, Catholics appear to be more sexually adventurous than Protestants...
...meantime, Hochschild advises couples to confront honestly issues of housework and career before having children and even before marriage. Men who hope to talk women out of their career goals just as they may have talked them out of their virginity may find themselves talking to a divorce lawyer, she writes...