Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...iconography of political campaigning, it is traditionally the wife who gazes worshipfully at her husband. In the case of Michael and Kitty Dukakis, it is just as often the candidate who is caught looking starry-eyed at his wife...
They present a sitcom study in contrasts, a political Odd Couple. He is cool; she is warm. He counts their pennies; she spends their dollars. She favors sleek high heels; he wears clunky wing tips. (One of her cardinal campaign rules is not to unpack in front of her husband, lest he see some new purchase.) His desk is as clean as a putting green; hers resembles a rummage sale of old papers. He is guarded; she is winningly open. She loves to gossip; for him, small talk is a foreign language. He is Greek Orthodox; she is Jewish...
When she married Dukakis in 1963, Kitty had been taking diet pills for seven years, depending on her small, 5-mg dose of amphetamines to get her through the day. Eleven years later, her husband discovered her cache of pills, but her subsequent attempt to kick the habit failed. She finally succeeded in 1982 at a drug-rehabilitation center in Minnesota, although it was only this past summer that she bravely went public with the story of her 26-year addiction...
...More than 30 years ago in Harvard Square, The Poets' Theater produced [Merrill's] first play, 'The Immortal Husband,'" Teuber said. "Now it seems only fitting that James return...
...women. Older, with bifocals resting low on their nose and a cigarette dangling from their lips. Working women of a certain type. They may have waitressed a bit at a truck stop, saved their money and bought a little beauty parlor at the end of town. And when their husband died or ran off with their young manicurist, they took to knitting for a while, or crocheting, or painting ceramic plates by number until their home was overflowing with all that stuff, and they were still lonely, until they discovered bingo. A perfect way to pass the eternally long weekends...