Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are countless things, but never boring. Most male characters are secondary and not fully developed. The few male protagonists are consistently weaker--Doctor Zamora flees when he can't face his life. Carter, a college professor, is maddeningly passive in "His Women" and makes up with his ex-wife because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that he's alone. Adams smartly refuses to offer tidy explanations at the end of each story. The characters drives are ultimately a mystery. When the book is over we still don't understand why Julian needs his alcoholic...
...lunches on plain salad and spring water. Whose devotion to risk management is reflected in his wardrobe -- charcoal suits and white shirts, always. Who has been living in the same suite at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington for the past six years, and almost always dines downstairs (and whose wife wouldn't move down to boring old Washington with him). But -- and here's where the line between what Rubin actually did and what merely happened while he was minding the store gets even blurrier -- Rubin's footprints go deeper. By a strange confluence of historical eras, cultural shifts, personality...
...could be at home asleep in bed, but your spirit could be out at your neighbor's home, feeling up his wife," Miller said...
...could be at home asleep in bed, but your spirit could be out at your neighbor's home, feeling up his wife," Miller said...
...Vice President's wife is a longtime advocate of mental-health reform