Word: widowing
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...that Brian, the murdered husband (David Duchovny), has a childhood friend, Jerry (Benicio Del Toro) that is everything he is not - a drug addict who has fallen to the most degrading level. Brian has stood by him through the years, doing what he can to keep him alive. His widow, Audrey (Halle Berry), invites Jerry to the funeral and then, unaccountably, invites him into her and her children's lives. She gives him a spare room and does her best to help him go straight. At which point the film turns into a more or less typical addiction story. Jerry...
...years ago,” he said, pointing at a picture of a tiny man inside a sperm cell. He argued that the Bible should not be interpreted verbatim, giving the example of levirate marriage, under which a man is compelled to marry his dead brother’s widow. Larose said homosexuals have been singled out and discriminated against on the basis of biblical texts deliberately used out of context. “There’s nothing that gay people do that heterosexuals cannot mimic,” he concluded. The workshop was organized by the Boston-Cambridge...
...minute songs with two tempo changes in the first sixty seconds. When the Furnaces sang lyrics demanding that they notarize my will, I thought they were actually kind of brilliant. Now, I want them just to write a song I actually like. On their sixth album, “Widow City,” the brother-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger continue their brand of bluesy, loosely constructed indie, going to town with the various instruments Matthew has managed to find (this includes a Chamberlin). According to the website of their new label, Thrill Jockey, the lyrics were...
...whisper, Morrison touched on themes of race, gender, and human dignity throughout the reading. As in much of her work, a mystical atmosphere pervaded the story. “How many times do I have to tell you? Demons do not bleed,” she read, quoting a widow speaking to her dying daughter. “We bleed—demons never.” Ultimately, however, the reading transformed into a reminder of the transcendent power of love. Gloria I. Montiel ’09, who has read Morrison’s novel “Beloved?...
When President George W. Bush met with the families of fallen northern Nevada soldiers, widow Roberta Stewart, whose Wiccan husband Sgt. Patrick Stewart lost his life in Afghanistan in 2005, was not contacted. Bush later officially apologized for the oversight, but some wondered whether religious discrimination motivated Bush’s inaction...