Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of top executives and misfiring with a number of expensive films, including Primary Colors and Mercury Rising. Late last week came reports that Universal Studios chairman Frank Biondi was out of the top job. Adding insult to injury, the aborted Babe benefit had been arranged by Biondi's wife. Universal made a contribution to the Defense Fund. Now it has to hope that Miller can turn Babe from a sow's ear into a silk purse from which it can fill its own coffers...
...lively and tightly-knit group of ne'er-do-wells, the Johnsons are isolated from their extended family and ruthless towards each other, each one capable of horrible acts of cruelty. The main culprit is the father, Bill Sr., a vicious drunk who between jail stints beats his wife and children and sexually abuses his daughter Jean. Billy Jr., the dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest and most vulnerable member of the family, becomes...
Likewise, Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser recalls an experience he had when he was working in Uganda that affected his teaching. Hauser, whose wife was pregnant at the time, says one of the native field assistants asked him if his child would be black if she gave birth in Africa...
...didn't want to be boring. But now I have problems--issues that I want to talk about. I try to be as frank as I can. I see a therapist once a week. I've been in therapy since I was a kid on and off. My wife and I were in couple counseling last year, and the therapist suggested that we try role playing in our marriage. The first week was her turn and she was the abusive warden in the prison and by the time I was deloused all the passion was gone...
...years of marriage," he explains, "I've spent at the most two weeks total sleeping away from my wife...