Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when she tried to awaken him Monday morning. He stirred only when she shook him, and then appeared to be, in her words, "semilucid." Fearing that he had suffered a stroke, Jonda summoned a rescue squad. By the time it arrived she had discovered a note left by her husband, whose contents no one would divulge. Before an ambulance rushed him to nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital, the groggy McFarlane mumbled something to its crew about taking 25 to 30 Valium tranquilizer pills...
...overdrawn to most Americans. Not so for Josephine Najingo, a 28-year-old mother of five who lives in the dusty Ugandan trading center of Kyotera, near the Tanzanian border. For her, the lyrics describe a bitter reality. Josephine is dying because she had sexual intercourse with her late husband. A prosperous trader, he had contracted "slim disease," a painful wasting away of body tissues by uncontrolled weight loss, chronic diarrhea and prolonged fever. The affliction is the most common way that AIDS manifests itself in Africa...
...thousands of people in her town and the surrounding countryside have already died after being infected with the AIDS virus. Townspeople first attributed the mysterious disease to witchcraft. Now they know that their lovemaking is to blame. They have seen the pattern of infection as it travels from husband to wife to lover. Fifty of Kyotera's leading businessmen are dead. The streets are filling with homeless orphans, the offspring of AIDS victims in outlying areas. Josephine, racked by fevers, chronic diarrhea, throat lesions and a painful itching rash that covers her chest and arms, now passes her days sitting...
...locates meaning in each thrill and frill. He gives Supporting Players Nicol Williamson and James Hong juicy vignettes. He gives Winger a role that taps her smarts, humor and goofy-gorgeous smile. And he gives Russell the movie. In the past she has mainly graced the films of her husband Nicolas Roeg. Here she emerges as a golden girl with looks that kill. Separately, Russell and Winger make movie history: a detective and a villain, both women. Together, they fuse as a feminist femme fatale...
...restaurants in the south of France where the Duvaliers do not risk having their reservation turned away by hostile locals. Then the couple usually retire behind the walls of their villa and watch television. By the former First Lady's own count, every 15th day she gives her husband a manicure...