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...most hotly pursued vote belonged to Minnesota's Muriel Humphrey. Vice President Mondale telephoned from Hawaii to make a personal appeal to the widow of his political mentor. On the other side, Humphrey's Minnesota colleague, Senator Wendell Anderson, argued strenuously that she block the sales. On Thursday morning, with the vote less than two hours away, Jimmy Carter himself called Humphrey to make a brief telephone pitch while the committee was in session. She told the President she had already decided to back the Administration...
Much of the limited progress that Saudi women have achieved is due to the work of Queen Iffat, the enlightened widow of King Faisal. Through her husband, Queen Iffat persuaded the government in 1960 to open an elementary school and later a secondary school for girls. There was great resistance to the idea, and in the beginning the King had to send police to keep the guardians of public morals from flogging the girls on their way to school...
...began to extensively cover Letelier's activities. He notes how Letelier and his wife then became subject to harassment--"They would call up Isabel Letelier at night and say, 'Are you Orlando Letelier's wife?' and she would say yes and the voice would say, 'No--you're his widow' and hang up." And Orlando Letelier was continuously "observed" at lunches and meetings...
Here's what happens. Dona Flor (Sonia Braga) is a lovely and virtuous young widow who marries a dull fellow, the local pharmacist (Mauro Mendonca). To her pretty confusion, the ghost of her randy first husband Vadinho (Jose Wilker) returns to torment her. He was a cad, a drunk and a gambler, who dropped dead from too much carnival carousing, and his only redeeming quality was that he was good at lovemaking. Death has not reformed him, and in his scapegrace way he tries to get her into bed. She is tempted, but refuses, saying that it would...
There is no doubt about the outcome. Nor should there be: the diabolical first husband, the virtuous widow and the cloddish second husband have been dancing their dance in folk tales for thousands of years. The film's last shot is of people leaving church. Dona Flor is dressed in her best, and so is the pharmacist. Vadinho, his arm linked with Dona Flor's, is naked, and very pleased with himself...