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...Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung wed...
...WED New York City: "When President Kennedy took office, younger than I was when I took office, over 70% of the American people fundamentally believed that their leaders would tell them the truth...
Murphy would have liked to have a wonderful companion to spend the rest of her life with and false the child. But she was not certain which of two men was the father--and didn't want to marry either prospect. In the past, unwed women were encouraged to wed if they became pregnant. Today, society recognizes that, if she chooses, Murphy Brown is capable of raising a child...
...mystery why the birthrate is dropping -- Japanese women marry at 26 on average, later than in any other country except Sweden. The mystery is why they wed at all. The young men who want to enjoy barbecues with their families are heavily outnumbered by the Fuyuhikos, named after a character in a TV drama who was raised by his mother to excel at school and work but never to do anything else for himself and who expects his wife to pamper him the same way. Young women are putting off marrying the Fuyuhikos as long as they can. Older women...
...Brunner of having had an illegal abortion, a matter on which she refused comment, and of having been photographed in the nude, which she denied. Those issues aside, Brunner raised a fatal quotient of parliamentary eyebrows by a perceived antimilitary attitude, informal taste in dress and having been twice wed. Several hundred women supporters, some spattering dollops of paint, gathered outside parliament to protest the rejection of Brunner, who declared that "we have lost the first battle, but only the first...