Word: wifely
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...Gilliams didn't particularly enjoy eating out every night; they just felt they had no other choice. Both Greg Gilliam, a pastor in Independence, Mo., and his wife Chris, a clerical assistant, work full time. Chris' daughter Samantha, 18, and the couple's daughter Abigail, 6, are busy all day with school and extracurricular activities, not to mention the church functions that the family attends three times a week. Their collective schedule left little time for food-shopping, let alone preparing meals at home. "By the time we came home, it would be late, and we knew that eating late...
...should make a disclosure before I review Audrey Niffenegger's new novel, which is that I'm an identical twin. I didn't have anything to disclose with her previous novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, because even after numerous attempts I have not yet successfully traveled in time. But Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner; 406 pages) is about a pair of identical twins, Julia and Valentina, whose mother and aunt, Edwina and Elspeth, are also identical twins...
...Fearful Symmetry is not a book of great emotional force, not the way Time Traveler's Wife was. It's marred by a wrenching plot twist that, to me, sails way beyond the bounds of plausibility. And there's ultimately something strangely toylike about the little world of Her Fearful Symmetry. Everything in it--the apartment, the cemetery, the two sets of twins, the crossword-composing, obsessive-compulsive classicist upstairs--is fashioned with such twiddly bespoke neatness, such fussy perfection, that the whole affair is like a tragedy performed by exquisite dolls: lovely and precious and lifeless. Only the spectral...
Kristol described his philosophy as one of "conservative pessimism." During the Clinton presidency, my wife once expressed to him her dismay at baby boomers' self-indulgence. "I wouldn't worry too much," Irving advised. "Soon they'll be dead." A witty, unflinching observer of politics and society, he advised Presidents and undergraduates with equal patience and generosity...
...show, titled "Pop Life," includes lots of explicitly sexual images, including large-scale photographs of Jeff Koons having sex with his ex-wife Cicciolina, a porn star turned Italian politician. But it was the decision to display the Shields photograph, which the museum had set up in its own room, that drew the most attention from British press before the show opened. It certainly offended Michele Elliott, founder of Kidscape, which campaigns against child abuse in the U.K. "What I see is an indecent photograph of a child being used to bring people into an exhibition," says Elliott, who filed...