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DIED. Virginia Murray Bacon, 88, widow of New York Republican Congressman Robert Low Bacon (who died in 1938), ebullient champion of the arts and historical preservation in the nation's capital, and grande dame of the city's G.O.P. elite for half a century; in Washington...
...true pitch point of Trojan Women involves Hector's widow, Andromache (Billie Whitelaw) and her toddler son. Odysseus has convinced the Greeks that if the child grows to manhood, he may lead Troy in another war against the Greeks. He must be torn from his mother's skirts and dashed to death from the city's topless towers. One of the most wrenching scenes in all of Greek tragedy is shatteringly performed by Whitelaw when her little boy is taken and returned as a tiny corpse in the shell of Hector's shield...
BORN. To Jan Cousteau, 39, widow of Oceanographer-Film Maker Philippe Cousteau, who was killed in a seaplane accident at age 39 last summer: a first son, second child; in Santa Monica, Calif.; on Jan. 20. The second grandson of famed Marine Explorer and Ecologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau was named Philippe Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault...
There are three central characters: Louise (Roxana Stuart), a genteel widow; Nora (Naomi Riseman), a widow of lower-class origins; and Louise's teen-age daughter Gloria (Melissa Leo). They live in Bethesda, Miss., at the turn of the century. In her widowhood Louise has taken a younger man, Mr. Merriwether (David Williams) as a lover, but he has left for a job in Memphis. She is desolate and yearns for his return. There are hints of Blanche DuBois in her, and white is the dominant color of the play. The set is white except for a square black...
...cupcakes at 50 paces. One duelist was Dewi Sukarno, 39, the sloe-eyed, Japanese-born widow of the Indonesian strongman and a relentless Paris partygoer for the past half a dozen years. Her antagonist: the legendary Regine, 50, who has parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public...