Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass Menagerie, whose tale of having 17 gentlemen callers seems a sad fib, Elise is convincing when she says, "I used to make quite the impression when I entered a room. I stood perfectly still, and everything moved in my direction...
...call from a gentlemen from the Yale organization who wanted to make sure his burger would be as good as the Harvard burger," said Scott H. Thompkins. General Manager of Humperdink's--"There's a lot of selfishness on [the alumni's] part...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin . . ." On Halloween eve 50 years ago, Orson Welles' broadcast of H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds panicked citizens on the U.S. East Coast who believed Martians were invading. Last week when a radio station in northern Portugal re-created the celebrated 1938 drama, people again reacted in terror...
Then there are the "first gentlemen" -- the male spouses who suddenly find themselves sitting on the sidelines after their wives are elected. Dr. Arthur Kunin, a kidney specialist and the husband of Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, concedes that at first he was "not always happy waiting for my wife to come home." Kunin began to see that he had assumed the role his wife had held for the first 15 years of their marriage. "It's very important for a man to understand what being a high executive means to his wife," says Kunin. "I handled it by reversing...
...second half of the 20th century is closing in. It is much less respectable these days to join a gentlemen's club that bans women except when the members are lonely...