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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loker, who could not be reached for commentyesterday, is the widow of Donald P. Loker...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Loker Donates $17M Earmarked For Widener Use | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...sumptuous panties, basques and stockings in beautiful colours, all designed and made just for men...from bank managers to builders." In the "Apres Noir" showroom, there is even a British to American English glossary to eliminate confusion when mail-ordering; apparently many men, when ordering a black lace merry-widow for that special occasion, do not realize that "gusset" and "crotch" mean the same thing. Despite the goofiness of it all, there is no denying here in these two male-oriented porno/home-shopping sites, we have an essential principle of noir--the conflict between the rough and the pleasant, between grit...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: WHAT IS NOIR? | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...says. "She called two or three times until we got the warrant saying that she couldn't call us." Still, Willey's famous temper (her nickname "Irish" was on her license plate) would not be aimed at the President. Just days after he had allegedly groped her, the widow bragged to friends that he would attend Ed's funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lives Of Kathleen Willey | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

STARKE, Fla: The Black Widow is dead. Former nail salon owner Judy Buenoano, who poisoned her husband, drowned her paralyzed son and tried to kill her fianc? with a car bomb, met her fate in a Flordia electric chair at 7 a.m. Monday morning. She became the first woman to be executed in the state in 150 years, but there the comparison with Karla Faye Tucker ends. Buenoano, 57, showed no remorse for her killings. Prosecutors, who gave the Black Widow her creepy-crawly nickname, say she bumped off her family for the insurance money. Like Tucker, Buenoano said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Black Widow' Bitten | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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