Word: widowing
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...Shakespeare sort of said, it is a wiseguy that knows his own child. But with Gotti in the grave, the only thing for certain is that he is still the main attraction. "They just won't let my husband rest in peace," fumes his widow Victoria. A godfather with secrets never does...
...let’s start from the top,” she tells one actor. “I want you guys to settle more into your authority,” she says to a pair. And she makes sure that actors properly understand the characters: “Widow Quinn never wonders whether she has the power of the situation,” she tells one actress. But while Spillane-Hinks knows exactly what she wants from each scene, she’s still open to new ideas. “Bring your pear,” she tells...
Self-assured but still speaking gently, she gives the actors more pointed and direct notes. "I want you guys to settle more into your authority," she says to a pair. And she makes sure that actors properly understand the characters. "Widow Quinn never wonders whether she has the power of the situation," she tells one actress...
...suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Some 10,000 mourners came to the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, including President George W. Bush and former Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter. Many watched on jumbo television screens as a dozens of speakers took to the pulpit to sing the praise of King's widow. To attend the ceremony, the President had delayed a New Hampshire trip promoting his new budget. Bush, who is notoriously restless at long events, stuck to the dictum that speakers keep their remarks short. His words didn't rouse the crowd, but he was received politely when he said that...
...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...