Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author's paragraphs march slowly, but they march well. The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on. All of these art lovers are very covetous indeed. The most appealing, though not necessarily the most villainous, is a brilliantly facile painter named Jake Dukker, who has profitably latched on to every new art fad in the past 20 years. Says someone of Dukker: "If the Hudson River School ever comes back...
...Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Isak Dinesen, Truman Capote, John O'Hara and W.H. Auden. Now, in this posthumous volume, Cerf tells what goes on behind the bookshelves. Using tapes of his interviews for Columbia's oral history program, along with his diaries and scrapbooks, his widow, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and former Random House Editor Albert Erskine have compiled a breezy and vastly amusing memoir-identical, one suspects, to the one the gregarious panelist on TV's What's My Line? might have written himself...
From mug shots Ponto's widow and chauffeur identified the second woman a Eleonore Maria Poensgen, 23, another radical from an upstanding family. Police arrested her, but witnesses placed he elsewhere at the time of the shooting. Investigators thereupon turned their search toward a look-alike 22-year-old nurse named Adelheid Schulz who, like Poensgen, had a dossier in the computer...
...Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside and outside the party...
...quarters in the cellar. He amused himself by feeding bread crumbs to sparrows on the windowsill and teaching tricks to several generations of dogs in the household. He read voraciously, and claimed to be fully aware of Spain's recent advances toward democracy. His wife Josefa, dressed in widow's black, worked as a cleaning woman and in later years managed a small dry goods store...