There, the conversation centered on marriage and how to keep Mama June happy.
Some may have centered on ritual marriages between deities or of deities and their consorts, although the evidence that this was their purpose is ambiguous.
Melba Abreu, a woman who is a plaintiff in another federal lawsuit centered on gay marriage, the Gill case in Massachusetts, told me that marriage is important to her and to her wife, Beatrice Hernandez, partly because "everybody understands what that means.
The real-estate agent who comes for a walk-through, Elizabeth Jordan (Priscilla C. Shirer), betrays signs of emotional unrest, centered on her marriage, and Clara — whom Elizabeth calls, throughout the film, "Miss Clara" — invites her to return for coffee the next morning.
It's worth recalling that Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court case that struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage, centered on the union of a white man and a black woman.
That specter, of marriages centered on fulfillment rather than duty, and on the needs of two and not more, was equally fearsome to many 19th-century radicals.
Discussions on the right typically narrate a nostalgic story centered on the collapse of marriage.
Centering on the marriage of an alcoholic headmaster and his timid wife, and starring Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azema, "Smoking" will be shown today at 1 p.m. and 6 30 and tomorrow at 3 50 and 9 15, and "No Smoking" will be shown today at 3 40 p.m. and 9 10 and tomorrow at 6 30.
Arguments in the case centered on whether civil unions and marriages conferred equal rights, and on whether same-sex couples should be treated as what the court called a "suspect class" or "quasi-suspect class" — a group, like blacks or women, that has experienced a history of discrimination and was thus entitled to increased scrutiny and protection by the state in the promulgation of its laws.
Much of the show's early drama is centered on Peter and Alicia's marriage.
