Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wardrobe of a beatnik and the eating habits of a monk, RUPERT MURDOCH is easing into a new phase of life. In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Murdoch, 68, reports that his updated look, featuring a preponderance of black, is due less to WENDI DENG, 32, his wife of three months, than to his sons. "I wanted to look like them," he says, "40 years younger." To that end, he has been visiting "some institute at UCLA--they've got me on a morning drink [of] fruit and soya powder" and exercising with a trainer who "tortures...
...point of view, none of these things have a justification," says Glenn Kane, an emergency-medicine specialist at L.A.'s Century City Hospital, "though they may from a social point of view." Daren Gardner regards his brand--a large infinity symbol--as a sign of everlasting devotion to his wife Amanda. "What I'm looking for is an emotional experience that goes beyond where we all stand," he says. "The pain is very short and intense; the ornament is forever...
...dynastic impulse. The American fascination with royalty shows itself most flagrantly in our obsession with the Kennedys, but familial succession permeates American political life. Look no further than the glamour races for election year 2000. The top two Republican candidates are the son of a former President and the wife of the party's last presidential candidate (joined at the top by the son of a famous plutocrat...
...ascend for no other discernible reason than having shared the great one's bed is one Mrs. Peron of Argentina. Not Evita, who became a saint after her death but never actually ruled--no, the sorriest modern case of rule by consort is Peron's third wife, Isabel, a cabaret dancer he met during one of his exiles in Spain, who turned in one of the most disastrous presidencies in Argentine history...
...standing in front of Chris Rock's home: a carriage house in Brooklyn, ivy hanging from the front, a quiet street except for a kid a block or two away blasting Bob Marley's Is This Love from the open windows of his van. Malaak, Rock's wife, answers the door, and a rat-size terrier explodes out, yapping. "That's Essence," says Malaak. Named after Essence, the magazine? "Named after the [1993] Essence Awards, where Chris and I first met," she corrects...