Word: widowing
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...whose bumbling charm creates a pentagonal affair that stirs up billows of social mud. While trying half-heartedly to stick by his angelic wife ("I don't want happiness, I want you"), Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson...
...tipsy doctor, is the funniest figure in the play. John Lasell manages to capitalize on Platonov's absurdities without making his tragic side incongruous. And Penelope Laughton portrays the simple naivete of Platonov's wife with great subtlety. Unfortunately, the roles of the young fop and the widow's stepson are somewhat overinflated by David Bouvier and Joseph O'Sullivan. And Betsy White, as the widow, proposes sin to Platonov like a lenient mother trying to sell her children on brushing after every meal...
...victim was Marjorie Winifred Bird, a rich, neurotic American widow who hoped that the U.S. would one day be come a monarchy so that she could be its queen. The accused were Nicolas Sturdza, a penniless Rumanian homo sexual who styled himself prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering...
...built the first one in 1911, and that gave the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America a bright, if belated, idea. They would bestow honorary membership on Suzanne Chevrolet, 75. Off chugged the members to her home near Detroit, with a vintage 1915 Chevy in tow. The automaker's widow graciously climbed behind the wheel, chatted about Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet. And which model does she drive today? "A Mercury," she replied. "They gave me a better deal...
...jart's Faust was a little special, everyone hoped for the worst. Béjart, 37, has a well-burnished reputation as an enfant terrible director of theater, ballet and opera. His talent for welding all three together into erotic iconoclastic visions of such works as The Merry Widow and The Tales of Hoffmann has made his name a café cliché: "style Béjart" means art that is mercilessly frank...