Word: wed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naylor's straightforward tone defies the usual gimmickry to which the subjects she treats so readily lend themselves: out-of-wed-lock pregnancy, parental shame and a runaway's difficulties, single women just a step ahead of poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these...
...another sense, these men and women in white are indissolubly wed to each other and to the reader. It is not hard to see why. Most people begin and end in a hospital. They are born and give birth there, and they will probably die there, intubated and twilighted by drugs. The patient is always a kind of prisoner, arrested by accident or manacled to his genetic linkage. But as Medved's thorough probings indicate, the doctors, nurses and attendants are not wardens. They are far more authoritative: they are descendants of an ancient caste of magician-priests...
Monday After the Miracle. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies. It takes up the saga of Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan and John Macy, the man Annie wed, some 20 years after the events in Playwright William Gibson's earlier The Miracle Worker. Karen Allen, Jane Alexander and William Converse-Roberts irradiate their roles...
Most of Japan's annual three-quarters of a million marriages (compared with 2.4 million in the U.S.) take place in the fall. In November, when religious calendars are filled with auspicious days for wed lock, Tokyo's 300 ceremonial halls are booked solid for weddings, some holding a service every 20 minutes...
...five and he always said he fell in love at that moment. They did not marry until 29 years later, partly because her mother opposed this boy of no "family" and sparse prospects. Engaged just before Harry left for World War I, they wed on his return in 1919. The Trumans stayed married for 53 years, through a failed business, shabby local politics and Harry's sudden rise to the leadership of the postwar world, which Bess found the greatest burden...