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...anything for Gilbert, for Emily or for itself. All we can do is recognize a real tragedy when we see one, and wonder, perhaps, if one bright morning 1934 Gilbert read of a mercy killing in the papers, leaned earnestly across the breakfast table and told his new bride: "I couldn't do that. I could never do that." --By Roger Rosenblatt
Besides Sheina's homelife, Harris depicts a series of community scenes: an outdoor wedding capped by the bride's energetic dance with other women while the groom prances in an adjacent room with the men; a beehive-like bakery where workers scurry to produce matzoh under the prescribed limit of 18 minutes; a farbrengen (gathering), where Rabbi Schneerson preaches extemporaneously for hours to a room packed with followers, while the women crowd behind dark Plexiglas in an upstairs gallery...
During the first days of the trial, Attorney-Executor Zagat testified that Johnson was of sound mind even when he signed the last of the wills, just 39 days before his death. From the time of his marriage in 1971, when he was 76 and his bride was 34, Johnson made 22 wills or major modifications that gave his wife ever greater shares of his estate. His final will was the fourth drafted in eight weeks. By then, say the children, their father was weakened, senile and fully in his wife's clutches. J. Seward Jr., 55, a sculptor...
...even the Kennedys could produce spring on demand, however, and the wedding day dawned damp and cool. But at the white clapboard St. Francis Xavier's Roman Catholic Church, as the jubilant bride arrived in a muslin silk and lace Marc Bohan gown, she had a sunny smile for crowds that had been gathering since before 9 a.m. Helping the bride with her 11-ft. train were her ten attendants, including her cousin Caroline Kennedy as maid of honor. Schwarzenegger had arrived the day before from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he had been shooting his latest film...
Among the Kennedy family members and celebrities disgorged at the church by a fleet of limousines and buses were the bride's uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, her aunt Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, TV Actress Susan Saint James, I CBS's 60 Minutes Correspondent Diane Sawyer, NBC Newscaster Tom Brokaw, ABC Interviewer Barbara Walters, Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Flattopped Actress Grace Jones and Pop Artist Andy Warhol showed up late...