Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours with light from candles that, joked an aide, were "left over from the Pope's visit"?then led a procession of eight to the ground, 38 stories below, by candlelight. Housewife Harriette Browne hated to do it, but she had to use the 48 candles from her husband's birthday cake to light the house. One Fifth Avenue jeweler credited the sale of a $6,500 brooch to candlelight. "It does give such an attractive glow to diamonds," he purred. At Irishman Jim Downey's, a celebrated steak house, the light came from Jewish yahrzeit candles, normally used...
Literacy is not every man's dish. A teacher trying to persuade Arab men in North Africa to let their wives learn to read so that they can write letters was pointedly asked by one husband...
...blow up the Panama Canal"). When she wasn't being very nasty, she could be very nice. While she knocked Frank Sinatra and Jack Paar at every possible opportunity, she had only good things to say about Pop Singer Johnny Ray or Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar, her husband. She also wrote kindly about a Latin American playboy-until she learned that the playboy did not exist. He was the product of a pressagent's imagination...
...play tolerable. But he can't supply suspense and emotion where they don't exist. His actors read the overly precious lines as realistically as possible, and the humorous scenes are more successful than the painfully low high drama. Paul Benedict, with a comic deadpan, plays the resistance fighter husband of a wife from a crumbling aristocratic background. He's terribly funny but not strong enough to make his convictions plausible. Lisa Richards as his wife does an outstanding job with a whining, pathetic character...
...Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation of her mother's impending event by crying tearfully: "All men are horrible!" The ribaldry of Never Too Late will seem rather unnecessarily self-conscious to many a potent...