Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawmakers. Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt. One Indian aspirant for a House seat in Indiana, R. Nag Nagarajan, lost in the spring primary mainly because, a local Democratic official said, "his name conjures up some Middle East monster." When Lim's wife Grace approached a potential supporter at an Oregon county fair in August, the man told her, "I won't vote for a foreigner...
...little epic with a big brazen title, Happiness traces the discontents of three sisters--miserable Joy (Jane Adams); pert Trish, the pedophile's wife (Cynthia Stevenson); and best-selling poet Helen (Lara Flynn Boyle)--their beaux and parents (Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara). The prime setting is New Jersey, which Helen describes as "a state of irony." The whole film could be said to live there--a place where vile acts rub up against a Mantovani rendition of You Light Up My Life...
...mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates of Moscow. On the other hand, the forces that destroyed him were not particularly admirable either, beginning with an ill-chosen wife and her vindictive daughter. But even they are not really, in Roth's novel, ultimately culpable. At the end, Nathan stares at the night sky and imagines the stars as the deceased people in his story, freed from praise or censure, burning bright. Roth's fiction achieves at this moment...
Would someone please explain this to me? If a Hindu wife stands by her straying husband, she is considered a domestic doormat; if Hillary Clinton does it, she is a national heroine. ARVIND SHARMA Montreal...
...thought Lopez's piece was delightful. It's great to know we can all laugh at ourselves. I would disagree that there are no health problems with obesity, but I do know my size should never stand in the way of my life and work. I am a mother, wife, homemaker and senior in college. I have fun, swim, garden and have many friends who see me as a whole person, not just somebody who forgot to stop eating. Yay for the Million Pound March! May it march again. TERRY STAMP Bridgeport, W.Va...