Word: wedlock
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...victims con themselves into believing they have made it solely because they are exceptionally gifted individuals who are innately superior to less fortunate members of their race. They often exhibit disdain for poor blacks, especially those who are on welfare or have given birth to a child out of wedlock. They believe if more blacks were "like me" -- intelligent instead of stupid, hard working instead of lazy, educated instead of ignorant, morally upright instead of slatternly -- racial progress would be assured...
...neglect, and with one set of too near neighbors blaring opera while the other revs up show tunes, they feel like interlopers, a misfit minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic tone poetry about the lonely vagaries of wedlock. Since the play opened last month off-Broadway, the foursome have been exquisitely played by Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz and Christine Baranski. Alas, both actresses depart this week for other commitments. The replacements are estimable -- Roxanne Hart for Kurtz, Deborah Rush for Baranski -- but it is hard...
...most famous controversy over a spurned request led to the courtroom last year. Tamas Bosze, a Chicago bar owner, was told that only a marrow transplant could rescue his son Jean-Pierre, 12, from leukemia. The boy's only potential donors were twin half-siblings born out of wedlock to the father's former girlfriend. Bosze sued the woman in an attempt to compel her to have the children tested for tissue compatibility. She refused, and a court upheld her decision. Last November, Jean-Pierre Bosze died...
Worse still, it identified the woman in an unflattering profile that seemed sure to raise questions about her character. The piece, written by the Times's Boston bureau chief Fox Butterfield and Mary Tabor, reported that the woman had mediocre grades in high school, a daughter born out of wedlock and 17 tickets for speeding and unsafe driving. It quoted an anonymous friend's assertion that the woman had "a little wild streak." For good measure, it detailed her mother's divorce and remarriage to a wealthy Midwestern industrialist...
...readers what we know." Thus the newspaper had no choice but to include the woman's name in a long article describing her "little wild streak" -- speeding tickets, an affair with the son of a once prosperous but now bankrupt Palm Beach family, a daughter born out of wedlock and poor grades in high school...