Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays homage to Hitchcock in this sly and sometimes funny thriller about a widow (Jeanne Moreau) who sets out to avenge the murder of her husband...
...Test. Understandably, Ruggles has inflicted more than a few wounds in his time. One sympathetic but forthright neighbor admits that the old fellow is "downright quarrelsome." And even one of his most loyal friends, Mrs. Henry Cowell, widow of the composer, concedes that "sometimes his profanity got a little tiring." But all that was forgotten at the Bennington affair. Vermont's Governor Philip Hoff gave Ruggles a medal and friends made speeches. Carl was able to hear the whole thing over a loudspeaker in his nursing home near...
...campaign for the presidency. I might offer a suggestion to the confused American majority who wonders how to vote: Vote for the man who you think could marry a rich, talented and willful widow, teach her the humility of good manners, put her much abused estate in order, placate the outraged neighbors and make something useful out of her spoiled-rotten children...
...Taylor cheats on his wife. Mr. Harper is a drunk. Widow Jones cavorts without pulling down her window shades. It would all be everyday grist for Peyton Place but, blaring out of radios and jukeboxes, this titillating recital is selling 3,000,000 records. It is Harper Valley P.T.A., a thumping, country-flavored song about a smalltown widow. Her high skirts and low life are criticized by the P.T.A. at her teen-age daughter's school. She storms into the P.T.A. meeting and graphically exposes the membership as a bunch of hypocrites...
...programs go in for a little extra insurance. Julia (NBC) is a Negro widow. Warns Star Diahann Carroll: "Julia is not going to tell it like it is. It's a comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams...