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obstetrician worried about teenage pregnancy, does not allow her or her shrewish older sister Kat, a senior, to date. Kat is accepted to Sarah Lawrence...

theme of such literature and folktales is the often forceful "taming" of shrewish wives by their husbands. Arising in folklore, in which community story-telling...

Bette Davis was acclaimed for her portrayal of the shrewish Mildred in Of Human Bondage....

In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name given to a god which European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. The word is also used in...

The New York Times stated Howard "makes a real character" out of the "shrewish" role while Los Angeles Times wrote she was "rapidly becoming today's preeminent...

Ball manga entitled "...And into the Fire!". Typically portrayed as the shrewish and fiery wife of series protagonist Son Goku and the overprotective mother...

when they are older, ride on her back and flanks. It is also called the shrewish short-tailed opossum, or dwarf short-tailed opossum. Gardner, A. (2005)...

pesters Dawn and dances around the house in a tutu. Her mother Marj is a shrewish woman who dotes on Missy and sides with her in disputes with Dawn. Her...

on gender roles, featuring quick-thinking, resilient women as well as shrewish, nagging wives. The Twilight Zone aired for five seasons (the first three...

 1984 (1984-11-25) Richard Hagstrom (Bruce Davison), a struggling novelist married to a shrewish wife and father to an ungrateful son, discovers that his new word processor...

typecasting. "I think because the character I played was so extreme and sort of shrewish—people thought that was who I was, rather than me going in and creating...

cartoonist who works on the Tales from the Crypt comic, is put-upon by his shrewish and abusive wife Mildred (Colleen Camp) to take experimental fertility...

"Xanthippe" has now come to mean any nagging scolding person, especially a shrewish wife. Later writers, such as Diogenes Laërtius who cite Aristotle as the...

appeared in the Burt Reynolds comedy The Cannonball Run (1981), and as the shrewish wife of Rodney Dangerfield's character in Back to School (1986). Barbeau...

supposed old rival for William's love "Anne Whateley". Anne is depicted as shrewish in the first play, and as spiteful towards her former rival in the latter...

the actress, had also wanted her character, Fay, to go back to being a shrewish "thorn in her ex-husband's side". The season premiere opened with a roll...

The film opened the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. McAdams played Inez, the shrewish fiancée of Wilson's character Gil. Allen wrote McAdams' part for her, after...

appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, frequently playing Hardy's shrewish wife. Busch was born in Melbourne, Victoria to popular Australian vaudeville...

happy ending prevails for all – except for poor Senex, stuck with his shrewish wife Domina. Pseudolus: A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win...

pride. He simply wanted to tame her to be able to say he tamed the most shrewish woman. In this interpretation, Petruchio marries Katharine solely for her...