Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle to keep Singapore from the Japanese, the winning campaign to take Africa back from the Germans. For the war's most painful and harrowing catastrophe, the Nazi destruction of Europe's Jews, Wouk employs the deepening distress of Natalie Jastrow Henry, Submariner Byron's Jewish wife. With her baby and her uncle Aaron Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when the U.S. declares war. The trio's journey, a war-long struggle to escape, is dramatically paired with the agonies of Cousin Berel, a Polish Jew, in the concentration camps...
...Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer-but only to readers of a dying language. One of them was a young novelist named Saul Bellow, who translated Singer...
...shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure?" Singer has no plans to change either his life-style or prose style: "Everything will remain the same -same typewriter, same wife, same apartment, same telephone number, same language. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each...
...HORSE THIEF'S new wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...
From the outset of this marriage by convenience, man and wife try to get what they can out of each other. Julia shows Henry the finer points of gold prospecting, while he applies himself to Julia's education in bed. "You can always tell a virgin on account of the whites of the eyes aren't clear," Henry assures her. "I don't want to brag a lot, but I have on occassion put a gal or two in tune with nature." Undaunted, the feisty Julia spits back, "I'm sure nature is grateful...