Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abé. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's finest novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
...that only the British Crown can put on, with each member of the royal family playing his or her role. Elizabeth is perforce the straight man in the act, who underdoes everything with a flawlessness that creates its own suspense. At the other extreme, and refreshingly so, is her husband, Prince Philip, who looks remarkably like Stan Musial and is a self-confessed expert in the art of "don-topedalogy," as he calls it: opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. The Queen Mother is everybody's baby sitter. Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret are the scandalous bohemians...
...These nights, sleep is scarce. Plopping down on a two-seater sofa in her workroom, Joyce explained: "This is really a Hide-A-Bed. I have to get up at 5:30 to do my column; so I sleep out here instead of bothering my husband. The messenger from the Times comes...
...last year's ten best movies), she learned as a researcher and Los Angeles correspondent for TIME from 1953 to 1966 to double-check her facts. She now earns nearly $50,000 from the Times and the syndicate, but claims, weepishly, that this only puts her and Husband Doug into a higher tax bracket, so "the column is really an indulgence." Still, she has just indulged herself further by signing to do another column for Motion Picture magazine for an additional $12,000 a year...
...husband's turn has come. Where Mrs. Bridge served mostly as a target (roughly the size of a garage door), Mr. Bridge is approached with an odd mixture of respect, horror and wan amusement. The result is a strait-laced piece of comment on one facet of the American character more akin to Main Street than to the jocular psychedelic mayhem currently indulged in by black humorists...