Word: boyfriends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider Susan Peters, 36, a Los Angeles TV producer who has been married for ten years. Half jokingly, she speculates that her decision not to have children stems from her childhood play with Barbie dolls. "Barbie had a house, a car and a boyfriend, period," she notes. Peters has not been swayed by close friends who have babies. "They spend the first three months staring at the baby. I won't give my life over to that. The Smurfs become your life." Feminist Gloria Steinem, 54, also made a deliberate choice. "I either gave birth to someone else," she explains...
Bechstein's girlfriend, Phlox, works in a library. Bechstein's boyfriend, Arthur, works in the same library. At one point, Bechstein confronts both of them, and offers: "I love you, Phlox. And I love you, Arthur." For as long as he is able--and Phlox and Arthur make it increasingly difficult--Bechstein straddles the sexual fence...
...seizing $22,000 in Shirley Lojeski's bank account. Lojeski, who breeds Thoroughbred horses in Pipersville, Pa., was unaware that anything was wrong until her checks suddenly started bouncing. Mystified at first, she eventually realized that the IRS had taken her money as a way to get at her boyfriend, Thomas Treadway. The agency had accused Treadway, who ran a trash-management business, of owing $247,000 in back taxes, and suspected that he was stashing his money in Lojeski's account. Treadway later established that he did not owe the $247,000, but not until four months after...
...perhaps there is cause for hope. Many people who buy take-out food on workdays take to the stove on special occasions. "I cook for out-of-town friends or when my boyfriend comes over," says Gerri Brownstein, 25, a New York advertising-sales representative. Brownstein may be remembering an observation made by Thomas Wolfe. "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves," he wrote in The Web and the Rock. Somehow, the act of reheating dinner seems a lot less appealing...
...psychiatrists who testified on Walters'behalf in the case told the jury that Walters leftHarvard with severe emotional and mental strains. Ryanargued that Walters' emotional strains were causedby a separation from her longtime boyfriend, andnot by her supervisors' negligence...