Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most hotly pursued vote belonged to Minnesota's Muriel Humphrey. Vice President Mondale telephoned from Hawaii to make a personal appeal to the widow of his political mentor. On the other side, Humphrey's Minnesota colleague, Senator Wendell Anderson, argued strenuously that she block the sales. On Thursday morning, with the vote less than two hours away, Jimmy Carter himself called Humphrey to make a brief telephone pitch while the committee was in session. She told the President she had already decided to back the Administration...
...began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife then became subject to harassment--"They would call up Isabel Letelier at night and say, 'Are you Orlando Letelier's wife?' and she would say yes and the voice would say, 'No--you're his widow' and hang up." And Orlando Letelier was continuously "observed" at lunches and meetings...
Here's what happens. Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) is a lovely and virtuous young widow who marries a dull fellow, the local pharmacist (Mauro Mendonca). To her pretty confusion, the ghost of her randy first husband Vadinho (Jose Wilker) returns to torment her. He was a cad, a drunk and a gambler, who dropped dead from too much carnival carousing, and his only redeeming quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would...
There is no doubt about the outcome. Nor should there be: the diabolical first husband, the virtuous widow and the cloddish second husband have been dancing their dance in folk tales for thousands of years. The film's last shot is of people leaving church. Dona Flor is dressed in her best, and so is the pharmacist. Vadinho, his arm linked with Dona Flor's, is naked, and very pleased with himself...
ENGAGED. Stuart Symington, 76, first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and telegenically handsome, four-term Democratic Senator from Missouri who, he said, graduated from politician to statesman when he retired in 1976; and Ann (Nancy) Hemingway Watson, 59, widow of Arthur K. Watson, an IBM executive and a son of its founding father. The wedding, in June, will be the second for each...