Word: wife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hamer had taken up his old life as a plasterer, and he lived with his toothless mother and a wife who loathed Judas the moment she knew he came from the old days--Hamer's wild days with Jesus, not so long ago, maybe 16 months. Hamer shut her up fast, and she cooked them a decent meal. Afterward Hamer took Judas out to the edge of the village, a plateau aimed at the distant Dead Sea. He said to Judas, "You know Jesus told me, early on, that he was born here--it's David's town, remember? Said...
...excruciating instant of dawn, when he heard Hamer's wife say "No" but yield all the same to Hamer's body and start breathing fast, Judas rose in deep silence, tied on his sandals and left for good. He knew his destination...
Still, Yasser Arafat, according to a close aide, was "furious" with his wife for embarrassing Clinton. "He didn't appreciate having to defend her to American and European diplomats," says the aide. The Arafats are accustomed to playing a defensive game. Suha, 36, with her bottle-blond tresses, Louis Feraud suits and French fashion magazines, was not the wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine...
...When pressed on why Rea was right for the part of Henry, the film's jilted husband, Jordan replies, "I needed a strong and incredibly subtle actor for that. It's not an attractive part--men don't like to play a man who can't give his wife an orgasm. I wanted him to emerge with a dignity that is surprising." His instincts were right: the quiet pain and pride of Rea's performance is one of the high points of the film...
...battle comes across most clearly in the way Yeremin directs his actors. Ivanov tells the story of Nikolai Ivanov, a once idealistic young landowner now made tired and obsolete by the failures of the liberal reforms of Czar Alexander III. Ivanov is sick of his life, sick of his wife now dying of tuberculosis, sick of his entire milieu. He is bored with his very existence. The insight and sensitivity that Chekov shows for his characters and their problems comes across in whispers and unsaid words, in the meanings that we hide underneath meaningless social conventions. For Yeremin, though, Chekov...