Word: wifely
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...Kandinsky, with his first wife Anja, decamped to Munich to become an artist and art teacher. His early paintings were folkloric, storybook scenes of an imaginary medieval Russia rendered like mosaics in bright lozenges of color. It wasn't until the summer of 1908, when he discovered the little town of Murnau in the Bavarian Alps, that he began to uncouple his pictures from any sources in the visible world. In Blue Mountain, which he began the following winter, he assigned the mountain an unearthly shade of indigo and turned the flanking trees into almost free-floating pools of pigment...
...June the host apologized, twice, for joking about one of Sarah Palin's daughters getting "knocked up." On Oct. 1, Letterman, prompted by a failed blackmail attempt, revealed that he had had sex with female employees. He followed up two shows later with a sober apology to his wife. And for good measure, he joked, "once again I'd like to apologize to the former governor of Alaska...
This is not to defend anything Letterman did. That his creepy - his word - relationships were consensual (as far as we know) does not change the fact that he had sex with women he had the power to fire or that he cheated on his longtime girlfriend (now wife). But now that he's become fodder for the great American political-blather machine - as did the newly reignited Roman Polanski rape case and Chicago's Olympic bid - the degree of his transgressions is largely beside the point. There are too many people who are too invested in having a certain opinion...
...soon as I got to his house in the Hollywood Hills, Strauss told me his first rule of ghostwritten autobiographies was that I would have to be completely honest, revealing things I wouldn't even tell my wife. I nodded as if I had that kind of secret inner turmoil. Then he said I should think of a turning point in my life. I offered the day I got my mullet cut off. He paused. "Did you ever almost die?" he asked. It turns out your expectations get raised after you've been hanging out with Mötley Cr?...
Carlos Tory, a 33-year-old U.S.-educated banker, is one of the freshest faces in Lima. He worked as an investment banker in New York City until early June but jumped at the chance to live in Lima with his wife and newborn daughter. He got off the plane and went to work for Interbank...