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DIED. JEAN MACARTHUR, 101, widow of General Douglas MacArthur, who called her "my constant friend, sweetheart and devoted supporter"; in New York City. A witness to history, she shadowed her famous husband during war and peace, most notably at his side on a PT boat, dodging Japanese planes and destroyers, when he was ordered out of the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 31, 2000 | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Courtney Love? The answer to the question poses a dilemma for modern women. Love, a woman who has successfully transformed herself from stripper to grrl-rocker to rock-star widow, and now, in her latest hit movie Man on the Moon, authentic actress, has gone mainstream. Sporting her new post-plastic surgery nose and a heart of gold, Love has come a long way from ripped baby-doll dresses and smeared mascara, baby. But in the process of her transformation from druggie iconoclast to Hollywood hipster, has she betrayed her most fervent fans, young women...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Love and Femininity in America | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...firebrand converted by Gandhi's story, he returned from U.S. exile in 1983, below, to talk Ferdinand Marcos into dismantling his dictatorship. Aquino was shot on arrival. His widow Corazon was later swept into power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children Of Gandhi | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Later that afternoon, he met with the widow of a Harvard professor to prepare for her husband's memorial service...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 25 Years for the Preacher Man | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...film's most distracting element, Jewel, playing the sweet widow Sue Lee Shelley, appears later in the film when Roedel, Chiles, and Holt move to a dugout to wait away the winter. Jewel is surprisingly good at engaging in dialogue, yet she visibly shies away from the camera when she finishes her lines. Lee quickly establishes a romantic relationship between Shelley and Chiles, who sires a child before dying in a federal raid on the dugout. Chiles death scene is sickeningly melodramatic as Roedel and Holt first attempt to amputate Chiles' diseased arm, only to realize that Chiles' death...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Tobey: Devil Without a Cause | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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