Word: elvira
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incumbents Elvira "Pixie" Palladino and John McDonough were implicated in fellow committeman Gerald O'Leary's extortion scheme, but cleared in a subsequent trial. McDonough barely made the final election, though, and has been a weak candidate in the past; he may have been hurt too much by the bad publicity. Palladino, who lost her seat in the last off-year election, has lost much of her virulent anti-busing support, and would have been in trouble even without her connection to the scandal...
...mocks all social codes as shams that bind the will. When he steals Dona Elvira (Frances Conroy) from the convent to be his wife and then abandons her, he mocks vows made to God and to fidelity. He protests undying love and proffers marriage to two peasant girls (Kristine Nielsen and Hillary Bailey) merely as bait for the gullible. He mocks his fellow aristocrats by tripping them up in the niceties of codes of honor, and his aged father (John E. Straub) by an icy disdain for filial piety...
...Janeiro. John Paul saw squalor. He climbed up a dirt road past the wooden shacks where 20,000 squatters exist under constant threat of eviction, toward a tiny parish church that serves the favela of Vidigal. On the way, he suddenly turned aside into a three-room hovel, where Elvira Almeida Lima, caught by surprise, had yet to make her bed or clear the breakfast dishes. The Pope gently kissed the old woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John Paul removed the gold...