Word: wed
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...nests of the last"; "Patience, and shuffle the cards." His English contemporary was of two minds about folklore, as he was about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon hot"; "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man"; and, more to the point, "Patch grief with proverbs...
...plot line is as simple as sin. Previously wed to each other, Amanda (Taylor) and Elyot (Burton) meet again on the terrace of a seaside resort in France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...
...loud revisionist notes in Manchester's harmonious reorchestration of his subject's first 58 years. He is the familiar Winnie who loved soldiering, political argument, the best wines and good English. He was a frequently absent though apparently constant husband to Clementine Hozier, whom he wed in 1908. The sexual adventurers in the family were his father and, especially, his mother, American-born
Twice divorced and the father of four children, Donaldson lives in a McLean, Va., condominium and admits, "I do not do anything but work." Though he blames his job for destroying his second marriage, he plans to wed again on April 19, to Kansas City TV Reporter Jan Smith, whom...
Beefy, none too tall and often clad in blue jeans and tennis shoes, Flea Market Merchant Giovanni Vigliotto seemed an unlikely Casanova. Yet in a Phoenix courtroom, Vigliotto submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner...