Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years that Ta Chien is "the Chinese Picasso," living in South America, given to bright colors (hence the Gaugin green peppers of the dish), and a native of the Szechwan province. I do not think that I have ever seen a picture of Ta Chien, or understood the relationship between the painter and the entree...
Above all, there were her intense relationships with two Polish men, both dying of cancer. One was with a 40-year-old waiter, whom she met while working as a medical social worker at St. Thomas's Hospital in London. She recalls how he left her (pounds)500 (then worth more than $2,000) in his will, saying "I will be a window in your home." The words are now engraved below a window in St. Christopher's lobby. The other relationship, which her biographer, Shirley du Boulay, calls "unconsummated, unfulfilled, unresolved," was with a refugee in a home...
...Stets and Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire found that cohabiting couples show higher levels of aggression than either daters or married people. One reason, suggests Stets, is that such couples "may be more likely to be isolated from relatives. When violence occurs in such a relationship, it's less likely to be communicated to people who might intervene." Another factor may be that live-in arrangements, which are still not the norm, put added pressures on the couple. "It's possible that there's still a lingering stigma to living together," says Stets...
Since walking out the door is an obvious option to physical abuse, why do . singles stay in stormy relationships? "A big part of it is the phenomenon I call Too Much Invested to Quit," says James Koval, a therapist who counsels couples in Long Beach, Calif. "We as a society are focused on a product, and that product is a partner. To make a decision about leaving a relationship is extremely tumultuous because of the total sense of loss." Unwed couples also tend to hide their private violence from others -- perhaps even more so than marrieds. Says Abbie Meyering...
...Martin's relationship with the Chronicle began two years ago, when the inmate sent an unsolicited article to Peter Sussman, editor of Sunday Punch, the paper's weekly features and commentary section. Sussman was impressed by the story -- a harrowing account of the indiscriminate sexual assignations of several AIDS-infected inmates -- and decided to run it. Soon Martin became a regular contributor, with a series of pointed and well-read pieces about life behind bars at Lompoc...