Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to replace Roberts this month. Though criticized in some quarters as having too similar a background to Lelyveld (and causing a stir internally because of his messy personal life: around the time of the promotion he had left his wife and adopted son for a British journalist who was pregnant with his child), Keller has received a good initial reception in the newsroom. His chief competition to succeed Lelyveld when he retires in five years is Raines, 54. A gregarious Southerner who has brought new punch to the paper's often bland...
...whose novel made the middle-aged extramarital dalliance seem like a cosmic event having a fling of his own? According to Texas Monthly, Bridges of Madison County author Robert James Waller, 58, has split with his wife of 36 years, Georgia, for another woman, Linda Bow, 34, a ranch forewoman. The Wallers' only child, Rachael, tells the magazine, "How do you watch your hero fail...
...laugh, as Americans learned in 1991, when she thanked her husband Parker Stevenson for "giving me the big one" as she picked up her Emmy for Cheers. Her Hollywood pals didn't know what to think recently when she publicly ribbed her buddy John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston. "I said John had puppies' feet hidden in his freezer and that his wife drank breast milk for breakfast," she says, shaking her head in disbelief at the silliness. "I wanted to make him laugh, and I did. But it came out weirder than I thought it would. Jay Leno...
...Harry and Tim in For Richer or Poorer. The normally reticent Woody Allen, who had never seen Alley until he chanced upon an old Cheers rerun while surfing the TV for a baseball game last year, says he knew immediately he wanted her to play his neurotic psychiatrist ex-wife. "The character called for a kind of earth motherly, uh, what do I mean, voluptuous, well, not exactly voluptuous"--he laughs here, realizing that he is probably asking for trouble with this description--"but a buxom earth-mother type. She delivered in spades. She's exceptional...
...Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah Wood) replies, "You were gone...