Word: wife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attorney general's wife, Giuny Thornburgh,who is Harvard's coordinator of programs forpersons with disabilities, said yesterday that shewill also be joining Thornburgh in Washington. "Idon't want to continue a commuter marriage anymore," she said...
This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...
...filled in by-elections), and her party was carried to victory mainly on the strength of her blazing speeches and dazzling charisma. Standing in a convoy of speeding jeeps, her head held high and covered with a colorful dupatta, or scarf, this 35-year-old Western- educated wife and mother attracted frenzied adulation. To deny her the right to govern could just as easily turn those adoring crowds into mutinous mobs...
...present novel, is a freestyle philosopher and romantic crank, madly in love with the West as it used to be and waitresses and barmaids as some of them still are. He shares Abbey's employment history, his age more or less (late middle), his marrying habit (Abbey's present wife is his fifth) and his sour gallantry. His position on beer-can tossing is the master's: the highway is an abomination, and thus the litter that sullies it is a blow for truth and beauty...
Lightcap, alas, has fallen on bad times. His latest wife has left him for the usual good reasons, he and his job at the Tucson welfare office are irreconcilable, his charge-card credit has seized up, his old dog is fatally ill, and he has a gut ache that sounds bad. In this woeful condition he hits the highway, heading home to his older brother Will, who still tends the family farm in West Virginia...