Word: wifely
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...first hearing, the court's dual, unanimous decisions on assisted suicide (the second addressed a New York case) constituted a heavy weight indeed for the practice's advocates. Led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose wife died in 1991 after fighting ovarian cancer, the court delivered a much anticipated judgment on one of the era's most wrenching dilemmas. "The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country [is]...rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it," Rehnquist wrote. "The asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest..." The Justices also...
...creates Doctorow's tapestry of early 20th century America, with historical figures (Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman) mingling with fictional ones like Coalhouse Walker Jr., the ragtime pianist turned antiracism firebrand. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens supply a score alternately catchy (the ragtime numbers) and affecting (a wife's proto-feminist lament, Back to Before). And director Frank Galati and choreographer Graciela Daniele have created stage pictures that are both lovely and thematically apt, from the exquisite opening dance in which three groups--blacks, immigrants and parasol-toting white society--circle one another warily, to J.P. Morgan...
When Reich tried to expose the pretentiousness of bold-type names at play, he chose an evening at the house of then AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena, and got just about everything wrong: the Kirklands aren't high society, and Irena is not a snooty Hungarian but a Czech survivor of the Holocaust who does her own cooking. She did not shout "No!" at Reich, grabbing his wrist to keep him from misusing the mint jelly, causing the table to go still, appalled by the "country bumpkin...
DIED. GLYNN ("Scotty") WOLFE, 88, Bible-thumping minister who took the holy out of matrimony, marrying 29 times; in Redlands, Calif. After reportedly divorcing one wife for eating sunflower seeds in bed and another for using his toothbrush, Wolfe met his match in No. 29, Linda Essex, the world's most frequently married woman (her trip to the altar with Wolfe was her 23rd...
...touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The director also insists that his actors throw themselves, soul and especially body, into his complex revenge scenarios. It's lovely that...