Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father of two (his fifth book, The Single Father, comes out in April). That may explain his sympathy with men who are prevented by zealous tax collectors, bitter ex-wives and mother-favoring judges from doing all they would like to for their offspring. Fortunately, Brott and his ex-wife Andrea have reached a mutually satisfying arrangement. They live about a mile apart and divide custody strictly down the middle. Brott is proud that his daughters arrive at his home, which is amply stocked with their personal belongings, with nothing but "the clothes on their back, their backpack and their...
Surviving with less resilience is Harry Sahelian, 73, of the Buccaneer pipe and tobacco shop. Harry was determined to sell every last cigar before closing the door for the last time and going home to his wife. He used to live in Philadelphia, where you shopped on the street and knew all the merchants by name. A better time...
...most popular and prolific craftsmen. In 1998 four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make it to the U.S. And he has self-confident charm by the bucketful: posh accent; a casually elegant wardrobe created by his fashion-designer wife Nicole Farhi; and an erudite conversational manner, splashed with amusing anecdotes about Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth...
...little as possible, let's cut to the present. Oliver has been living under an assumed identity in a remote part of England, all arranged and financed by Brock, for four years, during which he has married, fathered a daughter whom he adores, and then divorced his unfaithful wife. But Oliver's past refuses to remain in that tense. First he finds evidence that his father has finally tracked down his whereabouts and may possibly be seeking vengeance. He then learns from Brock that the Orlovs and Single & Single have had a falling-out. The Russians and their henchmen have...
...Before you married your current wife, you proposed to three different women before three big fights and then broke it off after each fight. Did you keep using the same ring, Champ...