Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly problematic, promises made in defiance of experience and reason. Still, the women take the risk. The narrator of Now I Am Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe, a wife and new mother suddenly realizes exactly what she now owes to her husband and child: "I know that I must live my life now knowing...
...want a serious relationship. What's wrong with me?" asked an anonymous launderer...
...group invited two Cambridge citizens to join its investigative mission because of the pending sister-city relationship, said Freireich. As of last night, both Cambridge and San Jose Las Flores had invited each other to establish the relationship, but no formal ceremony has formally united them...
...state of ineptitude that the American female's last best hope for happy mating lies in robotics. Every man that Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) and her friends and family encounter is in one way or another so insecure and self-absorbed as to be incapable of sustaining a decent relationship with a woman. It is only when Frankie, a public relations expert, takes an assignment for a manufacturer of high-tech doodads for the space program that she finds advanced science has fabricated what decades of psychological counseling and years of feminist lecturing have not been able to create...
...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...