Word: widowed
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Black, white; man, woman; father, child: questions of identity blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency...
...Extension Writers' Program, one of a dozen course offerings that cover everything from novelistic memoirs to personal essays. "As long as the tale has a universal theme, drama and insight," she stresses, "no incident is too small." Exemplifying these qualities are the stories of Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly with her family and reciting the Rosary. Before Audet, a mother of six, began taking Ledoux's workshop in Lewiston, she taught herself to type and even...
...Youks remain steadfast supporters of Kevorkian. Youk's widow Melody and brother Terry want to remind people that Kevorkian had the videotape made to protect them: to show that only he was present at Tom's death, that only he could be charged with murder. They told TIME they are frustrated that the case focused on definitions of murder instead of on how Kevorkian ended Tom's suffering. Says Terry: "We weren't able to give the jurors any kind of picture of who Tom was, what he was going through." A documentary filmmaker, Terry Youk recalls his brother...
...legendary vessel sank after a freak accident in Singapore harbor in 1996; a state-of-the-art 217-ft. replacement, Calypso II, is on the drawing board awaiting funding. But through the Cousteau Society, which he founded in 1973 and which continues to operate under the direction of his widow Francine, Captain Planet's legacy lives on in the form of films, books and a thousand azure images etched indelibly on the mind...
When Yussele returns to his village, he finds his childhood sweetheart has married a rich widower in his absence. Still wedded to his own rich widow, he tries to win Esther back, but she has decided upon a life of misery. Despondent, Yussele finally goes...