Word: bachelorhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael Jackson. Who could have predicted that the world-famous man-child would someday renounce his bachelorhood? While still under investigation for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old boy, the self-designated King of Pop married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the King, in what many perceived as an attempt to cleanse his tarnished image. However, only a few months after the newlyweds kissed steamily at the MTV Video Music Awards, gossip columnists buzzed that the marriage would soon be nullified, a rumor the Jacksons deny...
...Curtis had developed carrie's role in the plot of this film as well as they did the film's subplots, perhaps we would have come away feeling that two kindred souls had found each other rather than wondering why a man who had been happy in his bachelorhood would eagerly relinquish it for a woman who seems little more than a lovely shell...
...what does Lewis -- Oxford don, literary critic, fairy-tale writer, Christian apologist -- actually know about the ordinary hurts of ordinary life? Or, for that matter, about life as most people know it? His beloved mother died when he was a child, and for decades he has lived in withdrawn bachelorhood. Snuggled up in a charming book-lined cottage with his brother Warnie (the excellent Edward Hardwicke), he is sage but distant with his students, witty but somewhat abstract with his colleagues at the high table...
...people isn't easy, especially when all you have is the Canaday kitchen. Plus, what with women outnumbering the men in our party by 2-to-1--and this being the '90s, the decade when women no longer know how to cook and clean, and men are wedded to bachelorhood--the few men in attendance were the only ones who knew how to do much more than boil water...
...daydream the novel was always approaching the finish line. In real life Brodkey tiptoed around his writer's block, became the father of a daughter, then went through a divorce from the woman he had met as a Harvard undergraduate. After a long bachelorhood he was introduced to novelist Ellen Schwamm. Two weeks later, she left her husband of 23 years and moved into Brodkey's cluttered Manhattan apartment. They were married in 1980. He supported himself by teaching part time at Cornell, developing scripts at NBC and artfully freeloading. He advertised himself as "an incredibly good dinner guest...