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...Women who are satisfied with. . .light and easily broken ties. . .do not act as I have done," wrote Novelist George Eliot of her 24-year, live-in liaison with another woman's husband. "They obtain what they desire and are still invited to dinner." However, Eliot suffered for her devotion to Writer Henry Lewes. Not only was the author of Middlemarch scorned at many a Victorian's table, but she was denied her final desire: burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb...
...your Essay on frugality [March 3] and the "waste not" philosophy, you neglected to point out that all those wonderful virtues, such as making leftover chicken hash, turning collars and sewing stockings, were performed by tireless live-in grandmas and stay-at-home, father-knows-best housewives. Women now work, and hours can't be recycled. Besides, you can't darn the heels of a pair of pantyhose...
...Chicken Street reopened for business. The capital's telephones were functioning once more, and cross-country buses were running again. But the city was not the same. Soviet officers and political cadres were virtually in charge of the Defense and Interior ministries. Most large police stations now had live-in Soviet advisers. Just outside the city limits more than 16,000 Soviet soldiers continued...
...longstanding hypertension and atherosclerosis. But rumors, fed by a toxicology study showing traces of at least ten prescription drugs in his body, soon circulated depicting Presley as a medication junkie who had fallen victim to his habit. There was even talk of a "drug trailer" with a live-in nurse on the lush grounds of his Graceland mansion...
That kind of approval came hard. Whispered exchanges over backyard fences about the Doc's "live-in" girlfriend, a lab technician at the center, are just now dying down. Feather Falls is a company town, wholly owned by the Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Its 800 citizens live in white-trimmed, barn-red houses, paying an average $125-a-month rent. They did not know what to make of an antiwar activist like Rose who dressed in red flannel shirts, green silk dotted ties and baggy, unpressed jeans. His walrus mustache, gold-rimmed glasses and long brown hair brought to mind...