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.
His first victim's wife (that's Ganja) shows up at his lavish rural estate; Ganja and Hess's romance and marriage is centered on their now shared quest for blood, even as Hess maintains another hemophage life on the down-low.
Often cited as the first of Hitchcock's globe-trotting spy thrillers, a format he would revisit periodically for decades to come, it is also part of a less-noticed cycle within Hitchcock's work: films centered on marriages and the careful negotiations necessary to ensure their survival.
ALBANY — Much of the excitement over the approval of same-sex marriage in New York last year centered on New York City, home to a large gay community whose members flocked to city marriage bureaus starting last July.
There, the conversation centered on marriage and how to keep Mama June happy.
He said that he had long hoped the debate over same-sex marriage would center on parenthood, not private relationships, but that in the public's mind today the issue was simply about equality for gay men and lesbians — in other words, civil rights.
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.
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.
