Word: wifey
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Kitty stuffed her lover's finicky stomach with the best English food, fussed over his frequent colds, and emptied his pockets when he came home from the wars. When he had to be away, he wrote her "Dear Wifey" notes asking her to be a "brave little woman"-letters, one reader has observed, "such as a kitchenmaid might receive from the underfootman...
...other assorted feminists and interested spectators poured into macho Mexico for what was billed by planners as "the world's largest consciousness-raising group." The consciousness-raisers present included one female Prime Minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and about a dozen wives of national leaders, promptly dubbed "wifey-poos" by disdainful feminists. Among them: Jehan Sadat of Egypt, Nusrat Bhutto of Pakistan, Leah Rabin of Israel, and Imelda Marcos of the Philippines...
...Wifey's Buddy. Poe was one of those drinkers to whom one jigger was the same as a jug. He enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave...
...Meets Siren, but winds up happily in wifey's arms; and the tough guy, it turns out is all custard filling underneath. Perhaps one reason why Lunatics and Lovers keeps straining so hard to seem amusingly sinful is that all the time it is really playing safe...
That seems to be the sum of this tale of sound and fury, and if it weren't written and acted by idiots, it would seem a lot more real, and a lot less fun. Scene the Best: Laughton, fawningly in love, tries to show wifey he's the strongest man in the kingdom, and takes on a wrestler, only to beat him, and then have to be carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome...