Word: husband
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During the presidential campaign, Kitty Dukakis stumped tirelessly for her husband Michael. But since his loss at the polls in November, she has kept a low profile, particularly in her home state. She even failed to put in an appearance when her husband announced a month ago that he would not seek another term as Governor of Massachusetts. Last week Michael Dukakis revealed that his wife was suffering from more than postdefeat blues. He explained that Kitty had checked into a private clinic in Newport, R.I., for treatment of an alcohol problem that had surfaced suddenly after the election. Said...
Friends and observers agree that her husband's presidential defeat was an emotionally crushing blow to Kitty. An energetic and ambitious woman, she had thrived on the demanding schedule, tumult and attention of the campaign. Sandy Bakalar, a close friend, says, "Kitty was going 1,000 miles a minute. Then on Nov. 8 it was suddenly over. It was a terrible loss." Her husband, meanwhile, handled the loss in his usual stoic fashion. "Kitty had to do the mourning for both of them," says Richard Gaines, editor of the Boston Phoenix, who has long reported on the Dukakis family...
...Alcohol Research Center at the University of Connecticut in Farmington: "It's hard to get them focused and to realize that they need to be talking about total abstinence from all mood- altering drugs." Kitty Dukakis has understood the message but must translate it into practice. Said her husband: "As she has now discovered, whether it comes in a bottle or is solid, if you're chemically dependent, you're chemically dependent...
...When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's satire of the Yorkshire bourgeoisie circa 1908. The premise: three long-married couples discover that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall Duk Kim has wit and charm as Kobart's newly disobedient...
...phone call roused Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel from his sleep. It was a sobbing Imelda Marcos on the line with an urgent appeal from the hospital bedside of her husband, exiled former President Ferdinand Marcos. "The doctor told him he hasn't much time to live," she said to Laurel, pleading for permission for Marcos to return home so that he can die in his native land. After flying to Honolulu, where the Marcoses have lived since fleeing Manila in 1986, Laurel visited the ailing ex-President and agreed that he appeared to be hovering near death...