Word: wife
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Shire fails to repeat her sensitive performance from Rocky; she tends to spend most of her time staring dumbly at Stallone's mashed face or dead-panning hokey lines. As a solicitous wife concerned about her husband's battered body, she had opposed his return to the ring. But for no reason, after recovering from a coma caused by complications in childbirth (little Rockies for the next movie), she tells him all she wants him to do is "Win!" Maybe it's to be expected, but you'd hope Stallone could have come up with something more believable...
...water in the old gym. These scenes depart most from the old Rocky, but they're also the most deadly in the new film. Sure enough, eventually both Rocky's instincts and the need for something more exciting to end the movie with than Rocky staring at his comatose wife force Stallone to backtrack to his last closing scene--the one that make Rocky so popular...
...that didn't matter in the hallucinogenic country that Uganda became under Idi Amin. For three years John Akii-bua, 29, was forbidden to leave the country again to participate in international meets. When the ban was finally lifted last summer in a typically perverse Amin decision, Wife Joyce and Akii-bua's three children were forced to remain in Kampala as hostages against his return. When Amin finally fell, the family escaped to West Germany. In friendlier political climes, Akii-bua is preparing for the '80 Moscow Olympics, in which he will compete again for Uganda...
...highest among the urban poor (many of them minorities), blue-collar workers, people under 30 or without religious affiliation, families with a husband who is jobless and those with four to six children. But the study also showed that violence occurs among affluent families as well. Indeed, the wife of a university president (not New Hampshire) once quietly called Straus to ask what she could do about her husband, who was beating her; Straus suggested marriage counseling...
BORN. To E. Howard Hunt, 60, convicted Watergate burglar and author of 54 books, and his wife of 18 months, Laura Martin Hunt, 34, a former Spanish teacher: a son; in Miami. The child, named Austin Dairing, is her first and his fifth (four by his late first wife...