Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love affair that scandalized his parishioners and broke up his first marriage. Esther, Roger's partner in adultery and now his second wife, comes from a family with money. The Lamberts live in a comfortable house full of books and tasteful furniture. Amid his predictable academic routine, the husband notices that his younger wife may be getting bored; when he comes home in the evenings, he finds her well into the wine they will drink with dinner and listening to opera on the stereo. Roger does not want to think too hard about this and many other things as well...
Raisa Gorbachev has been an elegant companion on her husband Mikhail's visits to factories, farms and foreign countries. Now the wife of the Soviet leader is stepping out on her own. When she attended a Chinese embassy fashion show earlier this month, her visit was seen as a small but significant part of Moscow's efforts to improve relations with Peking...
...terse palace announcement last week declared Wassila divorced. The * statement accused her of "violation of the Constitution and declarations made without the President's authorization." While no charges were detailed, Wassila has been a supporter of a constitutional change to make the process of choosing a successor to her husband, who has ruled for nearly 30 years, more democratic. Asked she: "Why close the door on the young and the new?" Instead of opening doors, however, Wassila ultimately found herself on the outside looking...
...compartments were constructed when she left suburban journalism in East London and its Essex suburbs at the time of Simon's birth. It was then, she recalls, that she began writing fiction, waiting for her husband Don, a political reporter, to come home. "I started a historical novel, a romance novel, a Jewish novel although I am only a little bit Jewish, some straight novels. A publisher rejected my comedy-of-manners novel with a nice note saying, 'Do you have any more?' So I gave him my first mystery novel, featuring Wexford and Burden, had it accepted and rewrote...
...maintained at least a weekend residence in the region for decades, and settled there a few years ago. "People like to think they rise above class," she says, "but it is a very important element in their lives, and it is much more open out here." She and her husband, whom she married in 1952, divorced in 1975 and remarried in 1977, have thrown themselves into local affairs and avidly tout the region's cultural institutions. Rendell has steeped herself in local tradition and, according to one of her American editors, gives driving directions to her secluded home by enumerating...