Word: widowing
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...states--one for each member of the House and Senate. (The District of Columbia gets three.) An elector is chosen for every electoral vote available to a state. Electors can't hold federal office. Some celebrities have been electors, like Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow. This year they include the Florida attorney general, a retired school administrator in Ohio and a computer specialist in Arizona...
...WIDOW'S MIGHT Mel Carnahan, Democrat, Missouri...
...ashes of Dr. Seuss have settled in a small wooden box in La Jolla, Calif. Audrey Geisel--who is sometimes referred to simply as the widow--has placed them there, neatly and lovingly, on a heavy wooden hutch in the sunny foyer of the home they shared high on a hill by the ocean. They were married in 1968, long after the rest of the world had fallen in love with him, and still she keeps him close, just steps from the study where a hat-wearing cat and a Christmas-stealing Grinch and a Who-hearing Horton once scampered...
...confined to the Venus Beauty Institute, whose glass storefront is used to great cinematographic advantage. Angele dispenses creams, ointments, and depilatories while enduring the quirky vanities of clients. For help she has pink-uniformed co-workers: Marie (Audrey Tautou), at twenty and lovely, is the target of an elderly widow's special attention, Samantha (Mathilde Seigner) attempts suicide under the duress of heavy foreshadowing. But these characters are like snapshots, brief though believable portraits. Other than Angele, the film's characters are never confusing enough to be understood...
Both the mother and boyfriend are two of the most stereotyped characters to be brought to the stage-Ellen Casey is a hysterical mess of a New York working class widow; Anthony is a Sicilian hairdresser with very little brains. These characters are pulled off convincingly, if a bit inconsistently, but not without a lot of hands banging on the kitchen table for emphases. Needless to say, Sarah has many reasons why she would want to disappear. She deals with her problems by hanging out at a bar in Hell's Kitchen where she sings "Eleanor" by the Turtles, convinced...