Richard Gilman recalls an awkwardness that ensued when he stumbled across Anatole with his dark-skinned wife and child: "I just happened to come upon them in a restaurant that was not near our usual stomping grounds.
Darcy Anderson, the heroine of "A Good Marriage," sometimes senses the presence of another self behind the mirror: a "Darker Girl" when she was young, and later a "Darker Wife," living what she calls "the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward".
That show's title is a play on "Trading Spaces," a home décor show; the joke in "Trading Spouses" is similar, but darker: wives are home accessories that can be exchanged like a blender or a sectional couch.
He's in his late 40s, wearing a faded black wife-beater and dark sunglasses, with greying Elvis sideburns and half a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
He's in his late 40s, wearing a faded black wife-beater and dark sunglasses, with graying Elvis sideburns and half a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
"You'll be back by dark," his wife predicted.
The other morning, when it was very dark, my wife whispered from the bed: "Have a good day".
Victor's slim, dark-haired wife, Esther Jessica Hechtt), walks in on her partner laughing along with a laughing record, one of those novelty disks where two men try to have a conversation without cracking up.
The sounds effects in the dark suggest the wife is leaving the table, and the restaurant.
It was dark and my wife had gone down a little alley.
