Word: nuptials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insists that they stay in separate parts of the building. Claudia and Heron ask to be married, but the father superior refuses in great heat. Claudia and Heron, likewise in great heat, awake in the night to find that the abbey has been deserted. In desperation they perform the nuptial ceremony themselves, for time grows short and the soldiers surely approach. Claudia and Heron cling to each other like the very vines as the enemy closes in on them. Neither will ever...
...develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
Shannon explains: "We wanted them to feel they were a part of our mar riage." With the approval of their priest, they decided not to have a nuptial Mass...
...with 250 pairs of pugilists, who paid $492.50 per couple for 13 "fight-training sessions" during the past six years, Bach has evolved a set of common-sense rules for fighting clean in marriage. By applying some or all of them, he reports, couples can channel the energies of nuptial nastiness into continuous self-renewal. Among Bach's injunctions...
...Skorpios. In the tiny chapel, Jackie stood quietly-almost in a daze-in her beige chiffon-and-lace dress, Ari in his dark blue business suit. John and Car oline, each carrying a single tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally in the dance, one of the newlyweds steps on his (or her) partner...