Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem in a rush to move anywhere. Partly this is their engagement in the process. It is also something else. When the three talk about their "special" relationship, they are hinting at how fortunate it is that they can work together instead of apart. Says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International: "There have been moments in the past year when it has been, as Churchill said, a very near thing. These guys kept a near thing from becoming a disaster." That has happened because the men feel that being at the right place at the right time also...
...that those who had lived with a partner were 46% more likely to divorce than those who had not. "The longer you cohabit, the more tolerant you are of divorce," says David Popenoe, the sociologist who co-wrote the study. "You're used to living in a low-commitment relationship, and it's hard to shift that kind of mental pattern...
...relationship between Rene, who is black, and Mary Elizabeth (the adult women are played by Lorraine Toussaint and Annie Potts, respectively) isn't exploited as a vehicle for preachiness, and as a result it feels remarkably true. With her fast-track life abandoned, Rene comes back to Birmingham believably confused and a little lonely. Mary Elizabeth is a homemaker married to her childhood sweetheart, a construction worker. She has a son and a daughter. The show's strength lies in the way these two grownup women fight and play and envy each other's flawed lives in the manner that...
Harry R. Lewis '68 is Dean of Harvard College. He has had a romantic relationship going for about 35 years...
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