Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to be a startling revelation to American citizens," says Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, an author of the act. It proved an unpleasant revelation for Courtney Minturn. She held top security clearance as a federal employee in Washington, and then moved to New Mexico with her new husband Charles Gomez. Earlier this spring, when Courtney Gomez applied for a new job with the Government through a temporary agency, she was told the agency would not send her on any interviews until she produced the necessary documents. "I kept saying, 'I'm not Mexican,' " recalls Gomez. "But all they said...
...status. (The law specifically forbids the use of information gathered for legalization for any other purpose: INS, for example, cannot turn over tax information on aliens to the Internal Revenue Service.) Another reason for hesitation is that amnesty will not extend to family members of applicants. Thus, if a husband qualifies for legal residency and his wife and children do not, they can be deported...
Suite Dreams centers around the lives of two of these characters, one divorced and the other happily married until he checks into the hotel. Hannah Warren (Laurel Pescosolido) is a 30-ish journalist from New York who is in the midst of a fight with her ex-husband Billy (Brian McCabe), a hot-shot screenwriter. They each want custody of their 17-year-old daughter Jenny (Jennifer Harris), but she has other ideas about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
...women profiled seemed to handle the exhaustion of balancing their roles as doctors, wives and mothers by not thinking about the trade-offs they had to make. One followed her husband to Montana, only to flounder with a law degree she could not find a satisfying way to put to use. Another became a prize-winning photographer, before succumbing to a series of heart-breaks, withdrew into an empty life of loneliness...
...intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright ((Seminary)). And no one else was"). Newcomers are likely to be baffled. The author keeps dropping Edmund Wilson's name and opinions without volunteering until the end the information that the famous critic was to be her second husband. Of the photographs that accompany the text, three include McCarthy's younger brother Kevin, a well-known actor, who is never mentioned by name in his sister's narrative. Those who are not already in the know about the author's biography receive little encouragement to proceed...