Word: widowing
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...though the movie pays its respect to romantic detail, it's really just this big cat fight over this man who is decidedly handsome but not convincing enough to be worth fighting over. Apparently, women only shine if men are just not present, because Lange plays a widow and Schaech might as well be dead for all his presence does to move along the plot--though he is cute, so he can stay. But I digress...
...movie is all about the aging of a southern belle, a shrinking violet turned black widow at the threat of replacement. The revenge of Scarlett, with the necessary homage to Freud. The film even goes out of its way to give an example of a foil to Jessica Lange's character, Martha. The good belle, played to perfection by Schaech's grandmother (played by Nina Foch) gives a wonderfully spirited performance. She delivers the best one-liners and has the venom befitting a woman on the side of the good and the righteous, the legitimate...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...
Lastly, Bhatia mistakenly considers the entrance of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi an indicator of India's potential multiculturalism. Sonia Gandhi may be a loyal wife and a proper widow, but with no political experience whatsoever and negligible knowledge of India's needs, she has no place in Indian politics, and the Indian people know this: the enthusiasm of Sonia Gandhi's "record-breaking crowds" has not translated into votes in the current elections...
...Sonia Gandhi: Her reluctant entry into politics is credited with saving Congress from being totally routed at the polls, and although she has thus far refused to be prime minister, her undisputed popular appeal may prove too tempting for Congress?s jaded leaders to bypass. Besides, Rajiv?s widow may have a natural flair for India?s unstable coalition politics -- after all, she hails from Italy, which has had 55 governments since...