Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Laurent (Alain Chabat), a real estate dealer, cheats on his wife Loli (Victoria Abril) but insists--men are such romantics--that she is ever faithful to him. As his mistress replies wearily, "That's probably what my husband says to his mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs...
Every member of a royal dynasty shares, to some extent, the same degrading destiny. It was Charles' great-great-great- grandmother, Queen Victoria, who famously advised a daughter to survive the act of love by closing her eyes and concentrating on the British Empire. Marriage in this crowd is a patriotic duty, not a pleasure; and the consort--Philip in the case of Elizabeth, Di in the case of Charles--has always been in a rather awkward spot. In Di's case, the indignity was compounded by the fact that Charles already had a woman for purposes of companionship...
...quite old. It has historical value to the house and nobody else," said Victoria R. Macy, assistant to the superintendent...
...know what I'm doing is right and good," says Victoria Case, 26, of Shelby County, Kentucky. "But it's a lonely life as a social worker, because people have a skewed idea of what we do. They think we're baby snatchers." Yet the 1993 case that has left child-welfare workers in her state embittered and defensive was just the opposite: social workers failed to snatch 22-month-old Daniel Reynolds and were subsequently charged with complicity in his murder...
...Victoria Case knows that family violence demands immediate action. Last week she was trying to ensure the security of a woman named Sandy and her three children. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Sandy's husband Bruce beat her up, blackening her eyes and breaking her nose. At Case's urging, Sandy has obtained a restraining order against him. But now, having observed many battered women, Case is worried that Sandy's resolve is flagging. "The kids love their daddy," Sandy insists. "He's really a very good person...