Word: widowing
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...Japanime or any Disney movie, and is undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit...
...open competition entries was pared down to eight, then to three finalists, before the winning design, “Reflecting Absence,” was chosen. The jurors came from a variety of backgrounds, including art and politics. One juror, Paula Grant Berry ’79, is the widow of a victim of the collapse of the south tower...
...They're like the Taliban. They're the vegetarian Taliban." Veronica Atkins, widow of American high-protein diet doctor Robert Atkins, after a provegetarian physicians' group obtained her husband's medical records and released them to the press...
...meat-loving Atkins movement so vehemently it has a website called atkins diet alert.org The committee then sent the medical examiner's report to the Wall Street Journal. Details from the report, published last week in the Journal, showed that Atkins left a 258-lb., 6-ft. corpse. Atkins' widow Veronica threatened to sue. But by then anti-fat bloggers--and we all know how cruel they can be--were already calling him Dr. Fatkins...
...open competition entries was pared down to eight, then to three finalists, before the winning design, “Reflecting Absence,” was chosen. The jurors came from a variety of backgrounds, including art and politics. One juror, Paula Grant Berry ’79, is the widow of a victim of the collapse of the south tower...