Word: widowing
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...have been invaluable tools in guiding church policy ... When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates ... had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal sent a letter...
Carter’s impressive résumé proves one thing incontrovertibly: she knows how to tell a story. Carter’s recently published first novel, “The Orange Blossom Special,” continues the streak. It is the story of widow Tessie Lockhart and her 13-year-old daughter Dinah as they move from Carbondale, Illinois, to Gainesville, Florida, in the 1950s. The novel traces their interaction with the Florida town’s residents, particularly the prominent Landy family—with whom the Lockharts quickly become intertwined—and the historical...
...most charitable construction that Mary Lincoln's friends can put on her strange course is that she is insane," wrote the Chicago Journal of the widow who, in the wake of her husband's assassination, had returned to Illinois in a state of conspicuous mourning that drew the opposite of public sympathy, particularly when she tried to raise money by selling off her fanciest clothes at auction. When Robert, the only one of her four sons whom she hadn't had to bury before his time, committed his aging mother to an asylum while taking control of her assets...
...attracted to characters as unlike me as possible," says Kelly McGillis. Well, they certainly are a varied lot: a coltish charmer in 1983's Reuben, Reuben, her film debut; the gravely innocent young Amish widow in Witness a year later; an astrophysicist who out-sexed the F-14s in last summer's top-grossing Top Gun. A small but highly successful collection for an actress who was waiting on tables right up until the release of Reuben, in case it flopped. Now swamped with scripts, McGillis, 28, has just finished a romantic thriller, once titled The House on Sullivan Street...
...more than $150 million in the past ten years. No mere show-biz ostentation, his testimony was meant to show the earning power of a pop music talent, specifically that of Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who was killed in 1981, when his auto was hit by a truck. His widow, Sandy Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court awarded her $7.2 million. And what does a musical mogul do to relax from the pressures of all that moneymaking? Rogers has taken up photography. In those...