Word: wife
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, Diana Thomson, one of the protagonists in the controversy over dropping fiction-writing from the expository writing program (reported in The Crimson on March 6 and 7) can make her own defense, and has done...
...gentleman but a gourmet and a cook; he is also a compulsive describer. He compromised. In the Feb. 19 New Yorker, McPhee devoted a 25,000-word profile to his favorite restaurant, its pseudonymous owner-chef "Otto" and his sommelière-pâtissière wife, Latvian-born "Anne who is not known as Anne...
Sweeney is a victim of injustice. Railroaded to Australia by Judge Turpin (Edmund Lyndeck), a lecher who coveted Sweeney's beautiful wife, Sweeney escapes and returns to find his wife seemingly dead and his daughter a ward of the judge. Sweeney vows vengeance. His neighbor Mrs. Lovett has preserved his razor, and the grisly culinary combine of Lovett and Todd begins operations. There's many a slit 'twixt the throat and the lip before the cup of revenge spills over...
...birds. A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles. He is Norman Thayer Jr. (Tom Aldredge), hater of the New York Yankees, high dental fees and, most of all, the thought of turning 80. For 48 years, Norman and his wife Ethel (Frances Sternhagen) have summered at their Maine cottage on Golden Pond...
...image does not con everyone. His father treats Gold as if he were a delinquent child; his daughter nails him as a philandering skunk; and his wife seems to feel he is not worth getting excited about. All three are correct. In Washington, however, Gold is hailed as the coiner of the phrase, "You're boggling my mind," and that innovative answer to journalists' questions: "I don't know...