Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santana prayed aloud that the invaders would triumph; a guard blew his brains out. At La Cabaña in Havana, the guards amused themselves by ordering prisoners outside, where they are stripped, beaten with gun butts and jabbed with bayonets. Among those testifying was a woman whose husband was in prison; he had "a bleeding furrow on his wrists," the result of his being "strung up like...
...room by yourself; put on your favorite music, throw off your clothes; and dance."* So advises Laura Archera Huxley, wife of Writer-Philosopher Aldous, in her just-published collection of "Recipes for Living and Loving," entitled You Are Not the Target, and selling for $4.95. Mrs. Huxley's husband writes in his introduction to the book that "these recipes work." Readers less emotionally involved with the author may find her formulas to be, at best, ridiculous, and, at worst, risky. But lively reading nonetheless...
...where does this leave Richard Burton? Well, for his work in the same picture, he made $250,000. And if that seems grim enough, there is something even grimmer. In a burst of generosity some years ago, Liz gave her husband a 50% cut of her proceeds from the picture. So Eddie Fisher, who is still her husband, will make perhaps 14 times as much from Cleopatra as Richard Burton. He'll be rolling in money, but that...
...twice-divorced sister coming to visit her in Spring Valley, Pa., Elizabeth, nearing 40, seems the conventionally perfect wife. Dress: cultured pearls and sweaters. Husband: an amiable history professor turned dean and now gunning for the presidency of Spring Valley College. Children: a boy at St. Paul's, a girl at Farmington...
...Elizabeth with a full set of sexual and social complexes. The mother-dominated daughter of a New York social snob, she has been nudged into a more active life and a less glittering marriage by her democratic-minded father. For years she has tried to live down to her husband's in come, loyally cultivated the rest of the faculty for the good of his career...