Word: husband
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Terrible are the humiliations that Shakespeare inflicts on the aging Sir John Falstaff. Stuffed into a hamper of dirty laundry to escape a jealous husband, the portly knight gets ignominiously flung into the Thames. "Oh, oh, oh," he finally cries as the supposedly merry wives of Windsor burn him with their tapers. In setting this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last...
...They will ask the women, 'Where will your husband live if he is turned out of his house?' There is no other area of the law where the victim is supposed to worry about where the offender will stay," she added...
Hope met her husband, Anthony J. Hope, son of comedian Bob Hope, while he was also attending the Law School. Anthony Hope, also a lawyer, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California's 21st district in 1986. The Hopes' son, Zachary, is a Harvard sophomore...
...trust." Besides providing a support group where people can pray together and confide personal problems, these weekly gatherings usually focus on Bible studies. "Calling yourself a Christian without reading the Bible is like calling yourself an engineer without reading the textbook," says Susan Baker, a born-again Episcopalian. (Her husband, the Secretary of State, was formerly a regular at a Capitol Hill gathering...
Lindsay Crouse, who starred in her husband David Mamet's House of Games, and conductor Christopher Hogwood will present workshops in late February and early March as part of the "Learning from Performers" series...