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...years. "We're in the midst of trying to renegotiate what the marriage contract is-what men and women are supposed to do as partners." But the chips in these negotiations are often young children, emotionally fragile, economically vulnerable-for despite their work outside the home, most women still suffer a severe income drop after divorce. The by-product of what remains the world's highest divorce rate is millions of children thrown into poverty, millions more scarred by bifurcated lives and loyalties...
...result, "the plaintiffs suffered and will suffer great pain of body and anguish of mind, reduced earning capacity and have been and will be obligated to expend large sums of money for their medical care andexpenses," the suit reads...
...piece's comic possibilities suffer. The performance does not include a potentially hilarious scene with the Bolognese doctor, and the satirically repeated invocation of Simone's gravitas because he "was once Mayor of Fucecchio" slips by unnoticed. In contrast, Gianni's fingerless salute is just as funny the thirdtime 'round as the first. In addition, thepresence of Buoso's corpse allows for a nicecoup de theatre during the confusion of thelawyer's visit in the opera's final minutes...
...result of the operations, says the Rev. Gerard Nelliyotukonam of the Don Bosco Social Service Society, hundreds of Villivakkam residents suffer abdominal pains, weakness and generally poor health. Says he: ``It is terrible that these people have to struggle to live by selling their body parts. Most waste the money on drink and shoddy goods and are soon teetering back on the verge of destitution anyway...
Quite understandably, Geddes is becalmed with writer's block. Becalmed with impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...