Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond all this, Miller remains fascinating because he fulfilled an almost universal male daydream: he married Marilyn Monroe. By his account, he savored her wit and beauty but was driven away by her self-abasing craziness; in the end she was pleading for his return, phoning to ask, as if they had not agreed ! to part, "Aren't you coming home?" He adds, "Her voice now had all its old softness and vulnerability, as though nothing at all destructive had happened in the past four years...
...busy hospital out of their garden in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, have launched a $1.8 million expansion drive, funded in part by a popular adopt-a-hedgehog program. A portion of the money will be used for rooms to keep the patients separated. In a triumph of instinct over infirmity, recuperating male hedgehogs tend to treat the wards like honeymoon suites...
Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, once dean of the faculty at Amherst College, where she fought what she saw as entrenched male chauvinism, jumped to freewheeling George Mason, where she would have more time to write. "I thought it would be fun to try a school with chutzpah," she says. Last week Princeton announced that Toni Morrison, the much honored black female novelist (Song of Solomon, Beloved), was leaving the State University of New York at Albany for Princeton, where all hands insist that she will be no ornament but fully active in writing classes, Afro-American studies and the rest...
...Saddam Hussein spoke, his air force was busy in the Persian Gulf battering the shipping that keeps Tehran's coffers filled with oil wealth. Baghdad claimed to have hit eleven tankers off the coast of Iran during the week. The Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, meanwhile, called all able-bodied male Iranians to combat, a signal that Tehran may be ready to launch a major offensive...
Yale police refused comment on the fact that a male Caucasian wearing a blue hockey jersey, a blue bandanna, blue sunglasses, and blue sneakers was seen exiting the rink in broad daylight yesterday with the entire heating system and a blowtorch...