Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly for guffaws but actually tells a lot about the people who are center stage in our times. So Richard Burton recalls, for the cover story in SHOW BUSINESS, how his wife and Sandy Dennis used to engage in belching contests. "Elizabeth is also a good belcher," said her husband, "so they had competitions, but Sandy nearly always won for number and volume...
...service commenced when Scott and Ronna, garbed in white head coverings, slippers and robes-symbolic of the priesthood which the wife shares with the husband, though she cannot perform priestly rites-entered the small Sealing Room. There was neither music nor flowers. Governor Romney and Scott's uncle acted as witnesses, their duty being to ensure that no mistakes be made in the ritual. Officiating was Mormon Elder Hugh B. Brown, one of the church's Twelve Apostles, who began with a warm ten-minute homily to the couple. "Hang the marriage license on the wall," he advised...
JENNERSTOWN, PA., Mountain Playhouse. Never Too Late is a one-gag show that takes off when a middle-aged wife tells her very middle-aged husband that they are to have another child. Papa-to-be protests: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Sept...
...dissects this slice of Indian life, he works outward from individual characters toward general truths. His young couple are well enough educated to cope with the city's mechanized realities, yet bound to an ancient morality. The husband (Anil Chatterjee) can accept the fact of his wife's working, but not the lipstick she must use on the job. The wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) looks with childlike eagerness upon her newly won status, but goes to pieces before the in-laws' condemnation...
...lives are crowded: a gentle, ineffectual bank clerk, his wife and their small son, his parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find new jobs...