Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remigia, now 47, has snapping brown eyes and a husky Italian laugh. She calls her husband "Carlo," his code name with the partisans. She herself has fought a long guerrilla campaign with the English language, but the conflict has been resolved in what can only be described as peaceful and rather charming coexistence. "If you with me a little while," she says, "you notice that I speak almost all the time in the present sentence. My accent, I think I never lose that, because I think I have no accent." She has made dozens of engaging campaign appearances...
...Berlitz course is flexible enough to handle the specialized vocabulary various occupations require. The motivation, however, need not be vocational. Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale of Beverly Hills, whose husband is the French-speaking president of the Diners' Club, found each day both "exhausting and exhilarating." She also discovered that "it's so nice to know what your husband is talking about...
...murdered President and his lady home to Washington. Once again there is that painful moment when Mrs. Kennedy walked into the presidential bedroom and found Lyndon Johnson reclining on the bed dictating to a secretary. Later in his narrative, Manchester introduces another vignette: Jackie, while keeping vigil beside her husband's coffin, had the first two drinks of Scotch in her life. It tasted like creosote to her, he says...
Arthur Friedman as Harry, the "wow" at parties, and Tom Jones as the wronged husband James are quick, polished, and properly above the sense and nonsense of what they are saying. At the very end of the play, however, Jones sinks into a too perceptive, responsive state. Both have passable accents; neither appears to strain to preserve it. I don't think Arthur Friedman looks like the forty-year-old man called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member...
Vivien also admits that directors are troublesome, especially when they try to explain characterization to her. That includes her husband, who once directed Vivien in his television play, The Lovers. "Never again," she says. "It was dreadful. I'm not good with him when I'm under his direction. I'm nasty and feminine...