Word: griefe
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...real grief...a real defeat, because I do think there's a real need for places that offer gender separativity," she says. "Women need places to be women...
...Cleopatra and all things Egyptian intrigued even those Romans who demonized her, influencing style, customs and culture. By the early Renaissance in Europe, with its revival of interest in classical traditions, Cleopatra again became a subject of art, literature and fashion. Her luxurious banquet for Antony, his death, her grief at his tomb and her own death all are represented in paintings and sketches in the exhibition, as well as on a variety of decorative objects, including watches, fans and vases. The Renaissance portrayal of the tough and tragic seductress-as derived from the early Romans-has trickled down...
...perfect world, parents would draw up wills with careful guidelines for their kids, removing some of the critical decision making at a time of shock and grief. Alas, that's seldom the case. Realtor Bernard Strong, 47, of Atlanta, was already devastated at the age of 20 by his mother's tragic death in a car accident. No sooner had he returned to college than he learned his father had suffered a severe heart attack; his father died in his sleep 18 months later. "When that happened," Bernard admits, "I was about to check...
...Walter. After he disappears as abruptly as he came, the story begins to change. The voice of the daughter replaces the omnipresent narrator and the lives of the other family members finally become known. We see how the narrator’s mother, Maria Ema, is overcome with grief at the loss of her lover and suddenly the narrator leaves the room in which she spent most of the first half of the novel and explores the area around her. It is in this time that she explores her sexuality, as well. As the characters mesh together and time becomes...
...Here was a defining moment. The house divided between (1) those of us who believe in the stiff upper lip and the essential privacy of authentic human feeling, including grief; and (2) those who weep along with Elton John as he sings "Candle in the Wind" to the prostrate world, or who deposit teddy bears and such mementoes at the doorsteps of celebrities they never met. Intimacy on parade: Sorrow as pornography. Americans staged the same spectacles when John Kennedy Jr. died...