Trophy husbands

Lucie Talmanová isn't your typical trophy wife. At 39, she's a decade or so older than the pretty young things who generally sweep successful Czech men off their feet. But then Pavla Topolánková isn't your typical jilted old wife, either. She's a very attractive fiftysomething who still has plenty going for her, but she seems to have resigned herself to losing her man. Her parting words to him were that she hopes he doesn't regret his decision. What else can she do? Benjamin Kuras, a Czech-British writer, has some advice for women in her position. He urges them to forget men of their own age and to go for the 25- or 30-year-olds who might enjoy a relationship with a more- experienced and kinder women. He admits that it's not a trend yet. What it needs, he told F1 radio, is a good advertising campaign. Topolánková, as the prime minster's wife-for-now, might make the ideal spokeswoman. [Czech Republic Mirek Topolánek Frekvence jedna infidelity lovers]