Word: wifely
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...subject matter bounces from Hitler's last words (the Further entertains a few possibilities, including "BINGO!," before settling on "I never asked to be born in the first place") to the final moments of his first wife's existence (an event which is treated with great respect and tenderness and features some of the book's most skillful imagery). If anything is a digression, it's the barely developed timequake plot itself...
Fire stars Nandita Das as Sita, the wide-eyed but feisty new wife of Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi), who, goaded into the marriage by his older brother Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), continues to see his Chinese girlfriend by night. Sita becomes depressed and grows increasingly closer to Radha (played by Shabana Azmi, one of India's most accomplished actresses), Ashok's wife, who has taken a vow of celibacy with her husband to justify her inability to have children. Denied the passion they need by the males in their lives, the two wives begin an affair that threatens to tear the family...
Medearis is survived by his wife, Ellen, four children, two brothers, and two grandchildren...
This time he brought along his wife and four young children. The family settled on the island of Savai'i in the isolated village of Falealupo, the westernmost point of Western Samoa, one of the world's poorest countries (average annual per capita income: $100). Here, far from many of the Western influences of neighboring American Samoa, Cox felt he could learn about the plants and the healers who use them before both vanished...
...Jack's life has undergone some seismic shifts in the past 18 months. His marriage of 12 years collapsed, and he was fired from a job in his wife's family's business, leaving him to search for new career options. "It became evident to me that I didn't have control over my life," he said a few days before the counseling session. "This is one small piece where I can get some control." Jack thought that a negative test result--one that showed no abnormality in the gene IT-15 on chromosome 4--would inspire him to consider...