Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lisa Bianco was afraid of her husband. So when she decided to end years of beatings and other abuse by divorcing him, she got an order of protection warning him to stay away. But Alan Matheney continued to intimidate her, Bianco complained, and eventually abducted the couple's two young daughters, then 6 and 2. When police caught up with him more than 650 miles away, in Wilmington, N.C., they extradited Matheney back home to Mishawaka, Ind. Bianco pressed charges, but Matheney was released after posting $1,000 bail. Other arrests for beatings followed, as did another release. Finally...
Kitty Dukakis returned home to Boston last week full of plans for speaking engagements and fund-raising campaigns for Armenia, AIDS and the homeless. But her most important project involves a continuing struggle. "I now know that I am an alcoholic," she said as her husband stood beside...
...pressure group, Christian Leaders for Responsible TV, is making plans to monitor TV programming this spring and to organize a boycott of major sponsors of "anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter -- is being lampooned by exaggeration. The same sort of complaints -- just as misguided -- were launched against the bigoted Archie Bunker in the early 1970s...
...Raisa Gorbachev becoming the prima donna of perestroika? In rare coverage of the Soviet leader's wife, TASS quoted her last week as she spoke out on her husband's reforms and the role of women in world peace at a Moscow reception honoring International Women's Day. "Soviet people are putting into practice plans of revolutionary restructuring," the Soviet First Lady said. "We want our public life . . . to be worthy of a human being...
...everyone is so pleased with More. His perturbed wife Alice (Allison Weller), provides a strong support performance. Pacing the stage, wringing her hands, worrying over her husband's stubborn adherence to ideals, Alice fears that her husband behaves too much "like a printed book...