Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family Way (TIME, July 14). Playing a young newlywed, she gives an affecting portrayal through a difficult and delicate metamorphosis of moods. She is vulnerable as the courted virgin, bemused and forgiving at her raucous wedding reception, exquisitely graceful in a kitchen bathtub scene, and ineffably tender when her husband proves temporarily impotent. What is most telling about her talent is that she has survived many cloying movie roles without picking up Hollywood tricks or mannerisms; the keynote of her performance is an overpowering honesty...
When aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail this month, his wife turned to one of the few men who might have saved her husband from extradition to the Congo-and almost certain death. Parisian Lawyer René Edmond Floriot, 64, faced appalling odds: the Congolese had already convicted Tshombe of not only treason but also murder and robbery. With eloquence, Floriot contended that the Congolese had actually amnestied Tshombe last fall. But last week he lost...
...this marital split the protagonist is a suburbanite businessman played by Dick Van Dyke. The antagonist is his wife (Debbie Reynolds), who, although surrounded by a faithful husband, two handsome, happy children and a $49,000 house, nonetheless feels that her marriage is a snore and a delusion. As the two duel downstairs, their boys, who have heard it all before, listen upstairs, giving each parent points on a chart. The marriage game continues in the presence of the couple's lawyers. Debbie fights dirty, and in no time at all, Dick is taken to the cleaners. She gets...
...husband had just come home from the seas. He looked in the closet. "What are those military uniforms doing there?" he asked. "They're mine," said Manuela Sáenz de Thorne. "I'm a colonel in the Liberation Army...
...than a colonel in the army of Simón Bolívar, who liberated the west coast of South America from the Spaniards early in the last century. She was also 'Bolívar's political fixer and counselor and, for eight years, his mistress (her husband finally divorced her). As this book makes clear, "La Sáenz," the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state when...