Word: widowered
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...widow in yellow will also attend a private reception given in her honor by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and address the Boston Filipino community at an Aquino Foundation dinner Saturday evening. Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn will present her with a key to the city in a ceremony at Faneuil Hall Saturday afternoon...
...novel: the worst is waiting to occur immediately after the curtain falls on the kind of fiction that has been out of style since the period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter works, the glitter is incessant. Emily Codway, a widow of a certain age -- nearly 60 actually, although she will only admit to 49 -- carries on a sunset flirtation with a fortyish Italian prince, Carlo Pontevecchio. Her sister-in-law Irma Shrewsbury, also a moneyed widow, is romanced by Charlie Hopeland, a conniving young lawyer. Emily has had cosmetic surgery...
...impression on his friends, a circle that included the satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos and a galaxy of painters from Gustav Klimt to Wassily Kandinsky. His most eccentric episode was that of the doll. In the spring of 1912 he fell violently in love with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer and a pretentious man-eater. Their affair lasted three years, and she dumped him in favor of the architect Walter Gropius soon after Kokoschka enlisted in the imperial dragoons to fight in the first World War. This, combined with the horrors of the trenches and the shock...
...bolster its own collection of Kovacs' work, the museum sifted through 200 tapes kept in storage by Edie Adams, Kovacs' widow and longtime co-star. She had rescued some of the material from ABC shortly after Kovacs' death, when the network was starting to record over it. "I took the insurance money and bought a wall of stuff that said 'Kovacs,' " she says. "I didn't know what half...
...some time in the unraveling and may indeed be more fun for the teller than the audience. While the death of the bald Jeeter is announced smack in the opening, the sad event is inched up on through a series of digressions, including one on the deterioration of the widow Mrs. Askew's drains and downspouts. Not until page 57 is the bald Jeeter laid to rest in the local cemetery of the fictional Neely, N.C., at which time it begins to become clear that the deceased has nothing to do with anything that follows...