Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely vulgar. Judging from the TIME photos, Mme. Alphand appears to have reached the peak of human automation. Do the American officials in Washington all really fall for such Continental decadence and tinsel? It makes me feel I should come to the defense of my country. And a husband who kisses you on both cheeks if you're in and shakes your hand if you're out: really...
...Torrents. Later the words came, torrents of them. But only two were really needed. A Greek-born barber said them in his Times Square shop: "I cry." A woman said them in another way on London's Strand: "My God!" Jacqueline Kennedy said them as her husband pitched forward, dying: "Oh no!" A Roman Catholic priest said them with irrevocable finality outside the Dallas hospital where he had just administered the last rites to John Fitzgerald Kennedy: "He's dead." When it happened, Teddy Kennedy was sitting in the presiding officer's chair of the Senate, and Bobby was lunching...
...Kennedy, who was riding with the President when he was shot, eradied her dying husband's blood-emeared head in her arms as the Presidential limousine raced to the hospital...
...talks too much. But she is a heady dish all the same. When the schoolteacher (winningly played by Alexandra Stewart) comes to dinner, the wife purrs: "Who shares your bed? I hope you're not still a virgin at 20." A few more remarks like that and her husband has had enough of her unpredictable bitchery. "What are you trying to do?" he asks. "Ruin your evening," she answers swiftly, each syllable etched in acid...
...film suffers because its battle of the sexes is an uneven contest. Reginald Kernan-an American physician turned model and actor-looks fine in hunting clothes, but seems generally opaque as the husband. He is clearly outclassed by Signoret, whose vast aplomb enables her to crack open a fifth of Johnnie Walker and dab Scotch on her wrists and ear lobes for all the world as if it were Jolie Madame...