Word: wedding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Birney, 33, and Meredith Baxter, 26, stars of Bridget Loves Bernie, television's ill-fated rehash of Abie's Irish Rose; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Although on the screen Bridget was a Catholic and Bernie a Jew, the couple are both Protestants; they were wed in a traditional Presbyterian ceremony...
...Bombay, 5,195 Parsis died; only 3,828 were born. The religion does not accept converts. The faith is inherited, and Parsis marry late, producing few children. Moreover, only a man may pass on the faith to his children if he marries an outsider. A woman cannot. To wed within the faith, Parsis often marry first cousins. Generations of inbreeding have caused a high incidence of such hereditary illnesses as diabetes, epilepsy and certain heart diseases...
...relatives learned to predict. Whenever he began reciting Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle," a siege of gin and bourbon was imminent. The author's domestic life was a Faulknerian blend of the Gothic and the genteel. In 1918, his childhood sweetheart Estelle Oldham wed someone else. Faulkner waited. After ten years her marriage broke up, and Faulkner proposed. Their lifelong union was outwardly placid, Faulkner the proper country squire, Estelle his lady. But their mutual drinking produced nightmarish battles as dramatic though less destructive than those between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
...dresser known for her well-tailored trouser suits and gowns, Mrs. Sadat is half English. Her Egyptian father and British mother met and married while he was in London studying medicine. Jehan first met Sadat on her 15th birthday when he was 30 and an army captain. They were wed after Sadat's first marriage, an arranged match with a cousin, ended...
MONDAY: The Great Escape. 1963. Not the sequel to part three of the Leone flick. Steve McQueen and James Garner, unencumbered by jellyfish or ice-pick murderers, plot an escape from a Nazi POW camp. Flashy, but no "Grand Illusion." CH.4. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II Wed. same time...