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Humor helps, especially in a form that usually gives off a flat glare of one-dimensional optimism. It is hard not to like the "well read, well shaped, well disposed widow, early sixties, not half bad in the dusk with the light behind me." She sought a "companionable, educated, professional man of wit and taste," and she probably deserved him. Her self-effacement is fairly rare in personals. The ads tend sometimes to be a little ner- vous and needing, and anxiously hyperbolic. Their rhetoric tends to get overheated and may produce unintended effects. A man's hair stands...
...ribbons decorating telephone booths, mailboxes and trees. When he reached Richmond, he was greeted by 3,000 friends and neighbors. He hardly knew what to say, but he did know what he wanted. "First," he announced, "I've got to see Mae and get a haircut." Mae Hammond, a widow who runs a barbershop on the corner of the town square, assented. Testrake, she said of the man who comes to her every two weeks for a trim, was "looking a little shaggy...
...freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be with her son, Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 30, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. "My son is my life," explains the quintessential Jewish mother, a widow since 1958. "I couldn't live without seeing...
...those who had survived the night of terror. At the ill-equipped local relief camp, 26-year-old Ayesha Begum plaintively told of how she had spent two days searching for the bodies of her husband and two children. She had not found any of them. "Why," asked the widow, fighting back tears, "why is Allah so unkind as to keep me alive?" Her question, like her prayer, was unanswered...
...chuckled: M.C. Bill Cosby quipped and jived and, when Singer Jennifer Holliday was delayed, improvised his own burlesqued version of Gimme a Pigfoot. It also cried a river. The emotional climax came when Patti LaBelle sang You'll Never Walk Alone to Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta, who sat in a box with tears streaming down her cheeks...