Word: nuptial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wallach was a newcomer to the Radcliffe Boardof Trustees, having joined in June of 1997. She isa successful New York divorce attorney whospecializes in negotiating the terms ofpre-nuptial agreements--an irony not lost onobservers. Wallach's easygoing personality won herquick respect from both sides...
...paradigms. The old paradigm in a case like this is Miss Havisham, in Dickens' Great Expectations. Miss Havisham had been left at the altar many years before. She stopped the clocks at the moment of abandonment. She shut herself off and lived ever after in the ruins of her nuptial hope. She trained up the lovely young girl Estella to take her revenge upon...
...surprisingly, the conservative Buckley has a lingering nostalgia for the Latin liturgy of old. Dripping scorn, he describes a nuptial Mass celebrated "according to the current cant, with everybody popping up and kneeling down." To Buckley, the jazzed-up ritual with its implicit boosterism ("Who do we appreciate--Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!") is "awful." In fairness, though, he could have mentioned some of the Tridentine excrescences that led to the Second Vatican Council's reforms: hymns of stunning vapidity and priests muttering their way through Low Mass with the graceless speed of tobacco auctioneers...
...concluded that interest in Elvis had waned and that no one would pay to see the garish, crimson shag-carpeted house of a has-been rock star. Now Priscilla reversed herself, acting, she says, on faith as well as a sentimental attachment to what had been, after all, her nuptial home. While their bankers looked on aghast, she and Soden blew the last of the estate's cash, $560,000, on their own plan to open Graceland to the public--a smart move, as it turned out. EPE made back its full investment in a mere 38 days when Graceland...
Celebrities are getting awfully good at ditching the press to get married. Gossip columnists went on nuptial red alert last week when The X-Files' DAVID DUCHOVNY (instantly recognizable despite the cheesy fake mustache) was spotted at New York City's marriage-license bureau. But the trail had gone cold by the next night, when the star wed actress TEA LEONI of NBC's The Naked Truth at lower Manhattan's Grace Church. Just a handful of family members attended the paparazzo-free ceremony. In January the two stars had begun a commuter romance between his show...