Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corazon Cojuangco's wedding to Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1954, his best friend Salvador Laurel was part of the groom's entourage. When the widow Corazon Aquino ran for President against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Laurel stood as her Vice President. But don't let those ties fool you. Doy, as he is known to Filipinos, has chafed at being second best all these years, first to the charismatic Benigno and now to his wife. Accusing Cory of reneging on a promise to let him run the government once the two were elected, he bitterly broke off their alliance...
...altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph of Margaret Thatcher creates the greatest buzz, a reaction the bride, and perhaps the groom too, would undoubtedly have enjoyed. Were they still alive...
...other guests prattle on about the British Prime Minister, some even in English, the new language of the New China, I am transfixed by the marriage of the two coffins in front of me. The groom died in an automobile accident five days earlier at the age of 23. The body of his bride, dead of cancer for five months, cost $3 to exhume. They had never...
...Enough!" shouts the mother of the groom. "This is their wedding day. I don't want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter...
...groom wore black and white and looked pale. His bride was glowing in a pristine white gown, even though it was the third time around for both of ! them. After a public affair that helped bring about his defeat in last month's elections, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 70, and Dimitra Liani, 35, were married last week in Athens. "This is the happiest day of my life," he gushed...