Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Françoise Dorléac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into their home...
...unnecessarily personal and detailed recounting of Jackie's conversation with her husband on their last night together...
...report of her reaction on learning the identity of her husband's assassin. "That's absurd," she cried when she was told that it was not a right-wing fanatic but Lee Harvey Oswald. "He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist." To her mother, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss, she later said: "It robs his death of any meaning...
...regular use. These days, the government is relying instead on the cheaper intrauterine plastic loop. Though it is about the simplest and most economical contraceptive available to India, the coil-shaped device has given rise to a host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than $4). Even the sum of these two figures leaves the country a long way from its goal of cutting...
...about $350) for a woman's favor. He mentions friends only if they went to the same brothel, and his wife only as "that woman" - a hazard to be circumvented. Sympathy goes to that lady; it is to be hoped that she came to understand that if her husband did not love her, he did not love the other 1,249 ladies either...