Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such is vanity that Stern's clients sometimes have unrealistic visions of the sort of person they could reasonably expect to attract as a mate. "We had this gentleman, very bright but average looking, certainly no Tom Selleck, and he described someone who looked like Farrah Fawcett. Well, there's no way. Only a 10 can ask for a 10." That means compromise, as one of Stern's clients, whom we will call Lucy, quickly found. She was 37 and divorced and was after the sort of man who sets hearts pounding on L.A. Law. She was introduced to Nigel...
...might reasonably be asked, would people pay Stern $1,450 for a 24- month effort to find them a mate, rather than doing for themselves what is supposed to come naturally? The answer is dismally simple. "They are just too busy. If you are working 60 to 80 hours a week, there is very little time to go out hunting. Single people have organized their lives to get what they want: the good education, the condo, the car. Then one day they say, Gee, I want to be married. So they hire a consultant like me to help them. They...
Kosh is the remaining member of the Special K combination following Keffer's graduation. (See accompanying story.) The junior inherits her ex-backcourt mate's role as point guard and catalyst of the offense, after contributing 88 assists, 40 steals and 8.8 points per game to the Ivy League champions' efforts...
Campell also expressed disappointment over the selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN) as Bush's running mate. "Picking Dan Quayle--that's like putting the country into the hands of a semi-trained chimpanzee," he said...
...general willingness to undergo the rigors of campaigning. But many spouses and children of politicians are increasingly admitting that they feel trapped in the roles the public pushes them to fill. Children, of course, are among the most affected. After their father was selected as George Bush's running mate, the three children of Indiana Senator Dan Quayle saw him harshly criticized for, among other things, avoiding duty in Viet Nam. They were knocked down by TV cameramen and questioned about their father's rumored involvement with former Playboy model and lobbyist Paula Parkinson...