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When the policeman's widow, a librarian named Marcella (Helen Mirren), is pointed out to Cal, he begins slyly, shyly to stalk her. Whether he seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer...
DEATH REVEALED. Nina Khrushchev, 84, widow of deposed Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev and one of the few Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed...
...Angeles Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate caught his touch of Olympic fever at a TIME reception in Beverly Hills for the opening of the Games. There he was privileged to perform an unusual introduction: "We had invited Bill and Evelyn Lewis, Carl's parents, and Mrs. Ruth Owens, widow of Jesse Owens," Cate recalls. "They had never met, but they greeted one another like long-lost friends and chatted together for the better part of an hour...
...sperm left in a sperm bank by her late husband Alain. In 1981 he deposited his sperm after learning that treatment for his testicular cancer could leave him sterile. He died last Christmas, two days after he and Corinne were married in a hospital ceremony. In February the young widow tried to recover the sperm from the bank in order to conceive her dead husband's child. The bank refused, on the grounds that the donor had not left instructions. But the court ruled that Parpalaix had the right to the sperm, which it described as "a secretion containing...
...next morning black frustration flared again. At a packed caucus of black delegates, Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., pleaded for unity. Her eyes brimming, she said, "Those of you who wronged Andy Young need to say, 'I'm sorry.' " She also was booed. Later, Jackson scolded the black delegates. "It is a source of embarrassment to me for those of you who respect me and my leadership to boo or hiss any black leader," he said. Looking at King, his eyes now tearful too, he added, "She deserves to be heard...