Word: widowing
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...flying on a project and did not come home by 6 o'clock," she has said, "I just knew I was a widow. I remember wondering once how I was going to greet the chaplain when he came to the door." In the years since, Rene has absorbed her husband's quiet fatalism...
Journey had been bid for by most major studios (with offers as high as $500,000 for the script alone), but Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, widow of the playwright, guarded her husband's works diligently. She was so impressed by the Landau-Lumet production of The Iceman Cometh on television's Play of the Week series that she entrusted to Landau the TV-movie rights to a sizable O'Neill portfolio: all of the plays that have reverted to her control. Landau hopes soon to film more O'Neill, with top casts and directors...
...best lines to nature. Though only 19, she seems to have acquired the false vivacity and hackneyed mannerisms of generations of musicomedy ingenues. Swooping about the stage like a benign witch out of a child's storybook, fortyish ex-Ballerina Maria Karnilova, who plays a mate-hungry widow, is remarkably agile and refreshingly comic...
...never got him. but he turned from a laughing, joyful man into a bitter man when a malignant tumor grew in his knee. That was not what actually killed him. He was hit by lightning and three men carried him home dead. The bank foreclosed on his widow a few months later, and she had to move to a Government housing project in Pittsburgh...
Lester Goran writes about the widow Light, gossiping as if he were sitting on a sidewalk bench, killing time on a summer night. As in his fine first novel. The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, Goran recreates slumside Pittsburgh with superbly detailed tessellations of anecdote. An itchy slut of a woman up on the third floor sings Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with her soldier friends and kicks them all out just before her husband gets back from his war-worker job at midnight. Mrs. Bagley from the other side of the garbage court passes the word that...