Word: wifely
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...time on June 25, and the awful news raced quickly from the ER through the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Even veteran nurses reacted like many of his fans soon would. "They were hysterical. They're going, 'Michael Jackson is dead, he's dead!' They were catatonic," Irena Medavoy, wife of studio chief Mike Medavoy and a junior high school friend of Jackson's, told People. She was arriving for an appointment when the ambulance bearing Jackson pulled up. "I was there for about an hour and a half, and by the time I got out, people outside are sobbing...
...Jackson's death and commercial resurrection are eerily like those of Elvis Presley, dead at 42. One Hollywood cynic, learning that Presley had just died, commented, "Good career move." Cutting but prophetic: Elvis sold far more records after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page a conversation with Jackson: "He stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like [Elvis...
...disastrous compact with California plastic surgeons altered his face nearly beyond recognition. His cocoa skin was gradually blanched into a geisha's pancake white - the result, doctors said, of the pigment-depleting disease vitiligo. Except when camouflaged by makeup in videos - he even wore it to bed, said ex-wife Lisa Marie - or cavorting as a speck onstage in giant arenas, he retreated to his palatial Neverland estate near Santa Barbara, Calif., and became the world's most reclusive exhibitionist...
...When Dörentrup's council started switching off the streetlights, Dieter Grote's wife would worry about their children coming home late at night in the pitch black. "My wife has all the good ideas," Grote, who runs an advertising agency, tells TIME. "I discussed the problem with her and we thought it must be possible to have the lights available on demand." Dieter got in touch with the local utility company Lemgo and together they came up with a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? Lemgo developed a special modem...
...opposition party, Union-Pro, he still gets a seat in the Chamber of Deputies because of proportional-voting rules. But Union-Pro leader and billionaire businessman Francisco de Narváez told the Buenos Aires daily La Nación that Kirchner "needs to step aside and let his wife be the nation's President and build some space for consensus." The President, he said, needs to read "these election results well." Other Latin Presidents should...