Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion was Houston Plus One, and across the nation last weekend, women celebrated. They picnicked in the parking lot of the Iowa capitol, had tea in the Michigan Governor's mansion, held a wine and cheese party in New Jersey, opened an exhibit of Women's Conference mementos at the Louisville Free Public Library...
...semimarriages, platonic living together, genteel common-law shackups and serial polygamy. This profusion of mating arrangements brought on wonderfully baroque confusions of protocol: How to seat the husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead of the woman?) and social soaking in hot tubs (keep eye contact at all times...
...long ago found that she could not send out any announcements when her daughter was finally married because she had been telling her friends for a year that her daughter was married to the man she was living with. A woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room there. That's your room there." Then the mother came...
...characters are Doris (Ellen Burstyn) and George (Alan Alda), strangers who meet at a motel and end up in bed. Though married to others, the hero and heroine continue their affair on a one-weekend-per-year basis. Luckily, Writer Bernard Slade monitors the couple at five-year rather than annual intervals...
...wise for Treasury Secretaries to check in regularly with the Saudis and discuss politely whatever financial problems may come up. On his weekend visit, Blumenthal pleaded with the Saudis to hold down any increase in oil prices that OPEC may decree next month. The U.S. is resigned to a 5% to 10% boost, but fears that a larger raise would damage a fragile world economy. The Saudis have been muttering about how nice it would be if the U.S. would sell them bonds with an exchange-rate guarantee that could be redeemed for more than their face value...