Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later, the son and the widow of Bela Lugosi, star of the Dracula films, tried to take this doctrine a step further. They argued that this right was essentially property and therefore should pass on to heirs. In a California suit, they asked the courts to stop Universal Pictures from merchandising 70 Dracula products, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to belt buckles, and sought compensation based on the profits. Citing the First Amendment, Universal replied that the design of merchandise is a form of free speech that should not be restrained by anyone's heirs. Besides, said Universal...
Letters fill large chunks of Easy Riders. A true classic, reprinted here in its entirely, came from Pete Chambly, Quebec, Canada: "I'm typing this letter because I can't write for shit." A testimony on behalf of children comes from "The Widow," a native of Salisbury, Md. "This is to all you outlaws who think rugrats are a hassle. Kids are the only way to keep our lives free! We've got to teach our babies about love and brotherhood. We've got to make them proud to be scooter people...
...fiction has made him a celebrity, and he is pursued by the hostesses of society as ardently as he is by his creditors. The women win out and, as they were to do throughout his life, inspire and uplift him. To escape the moneylenders, however, he marries a rich widow twelve years his senior-and immediately falls in love with her. Often silly and foolish, but kind and loyal, his Mary Anne (Mary Peach) becomes, after politics, the passion of his life. "Dizzy married me for my money," she says late in life, "but I think...
...insurance (MOMA will not reveal exactly how much), the work of 30 couriers, and some 75 air shipments from different corners of the world. The cost of the exhibition was $2 million. Of the 152 lenders, among them 56 museums, only two sources balked. One was Picasso's widow Jacqueline, who, taken ill two weeks before the exhibition paintings were to be picked up, locked the gates of her villa. At the last moment Rubin wheedled the two portraits he needed from her. The other was the Soviet government, which, in the chilling of cultural relations with...
...probably more gloomy than most in a society that is generally hopeful about the future. Nonetheless it reflects the uneasiness of many Chinese these days. The country has gone far beyond the first euphoria of its "second liberation," when the radical Gang of Four, including Mao's widow Jiang Qing, was toppled from power and the new leaders embarked on pragmatic policies. By now, some relaxed features of life are taken for granted: the return of romantic drama to TV, glossy billboards advertising Coca-Cola and Sanyo tape recorders, and at least a superficial measure of personal ease that...