Word: dona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just that . . . well, I marveled at my mother-in-law ((Dona Aurora Aquino)) and how she could campaign. She was perfect at it; she could give speeches. And I thought, Thank God she can do this for me! She was the type who could kiss babies. As the wife of the mayor in Concepcion, I was expected to go to every wake. Initially, the corpses would be in a bed with just a sheet or curtain over them. My mother-in-law could handle all this, but it was all I could do to look at them. Many nights...
...absoluteness of that belief gives Aquino a firmness that can turn into stubbornness. Indeed, her very real sense that she is an instrument of God's will prompts friends and relatives to refer to her career, again and again, as a "mission." Says her mother-in-law and confidante, Dona Aurora Aquino: "I think this is a mission for her, to put her country in shape. Then she can retire. Ninoy's assassination was his fate. The presidency is hers." Cory often says the same thing...
That air of discriminating toughness was hardened during her marriage, which was, as much as anything, a rhyming of opposites, a marriage of public and private. "She was a very supportive wife," recalls her mother-in-law Dona Aurora. "She was content to remain in the background. She did not meddle, she stayed at home." As it happened, she had little choice. "Let's face it," the President likes to say with a wry mixture of affection and realism, "my husband was the original male chauvinist...
Actress Sonia Braga, 34, seems to have a penchant for multiples on the screen. In her most famous role, the Brazilian Loren played Dona Flor, she of the two husbands. And now Braga has a three-part undertaking. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, two prisoners, played by Raul Julia and William Hurt, pass time in jail as Hurt's character recounts the plots of early Hollywood movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend...
Drye was suing for more than $50,000 compensation for back pay and legal fees, in addition to punitive damages. Complications arose when UPenn refused to release employee records that Drye's lawyer. Dona Kahn, wanted...