Word: widowing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know that Staff Sergeant Scott Germosen's widow Jennifer had bought him a new wedding band, to surprise him when he came home. That Captain Daniel McCollum was a star wrestler in high school, voted "best looking" in his class. That Sergeant Jeannette Winters was the first servicewoman to die in this war. That Lance Corporal Bryan Bertrand had just re-enlisted for another tour because he didn't want to sit on the sidelines at a time like this. Last week Green Beret Nathan Ross Chapman was buried by his family: we met his widow Renae on the Today...
...herself in trouble too, in a February 2000 car crash that cost her 20 head stitches and a no-contest plea to charges of leaving the scene of an accident. As survivor and screw-up, Berry was ideal for the role of Leticia, the broke, hapless widow of an executed man who gets tangled up with a racist penal officer (Billy Bob Thornton) in the moody Monster's Ball...
...most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
...hard for mothers to wrestle the Christmas tree into the living room and answer their three-year-old when he asks for the hundredth time, Will Daddy be home soon? Getting out of bed can take an act of courage. One widow, a breast-cancer survivor, pretty much stopped eating after Sept. 11. She shot herself a couple of weeks ago. She lost her fight, but others...
...city that discovers in a single moment that every moment counts, that everything you were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what to say?and just as important, what not to. Tell me about your...