Martha Argerich's widow's-weeds black gowns heighten the beauty and mystery of her playing.
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In the '24s, an era of triangular fluorescent shoulders and moussed bangs, she sent widow's weeds trailing down the runway.
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That's especially the case when Rachel arrives in Britain, sweeping into the family manor, wearing widow's weeds and a Mona Lisa smile.
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She's festooned in widow's weeds throughout the movie, and from inside that black cocoon her face is like one of those floodlights the cops put up in New York at night: blinding, gentle violence.
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She returns repeatedly to 18th- and 19th-century European designs and fabrics, as evidenced by her wonderful use of tartans and repeated evocations of bustles, corsets and widow's weeds, sometimes carried to startling extremes.
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The same attitude is embodied in "Woman in Three Stages," a print from the series that depicts its protagonist's transition from white-clad naif to nude seductress to grim-faced old woman in widow's weeds.
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Arriving shrouded in widow's weeds and standing in solitary magnificence to stare at me with one unblinking black eye, it is still only a bird, a big, black bird entirely indifferent to the workings of the human realm.
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Sarah Winchester, who in this film enters the twentieth century still clad in last century's widow's weeds, seems to ask that most pressing question: If this behavior wasn't mad 30 years ago and you've simply kept up at it, has it become mad now?
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Black as a color of mourning is a distinctly Western idea, one that dates back to the Roman Empire and gained cultural prominence during the macabre-obsessed Victorian Era when Queen Victoria donned black "widow's weeds" following the death of her husband, Albert, and wore nothing but black until the day she died.
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Tristania's first full-length album, Widow's Weeds, was recorded at the end of 1997 and released early 1998. Two guest performers who were involved in Widow's Weeds would later get more prominent roles on Tristania’s albums; singer Østen Bergøy (who would later become a full band member) and violinist Pete Johansen. Tristania got to do their first shows outside of Norway as support act for Lacrimosa in Belgium and at the Mind over Matter festival in Austria in August 1998. Later the same year Tristania went on their first European tour, with Solefald and Haggard.
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According to Stene, she did not know she was in the band until she read an interview after Widow's Weeds was released. In May 1997, the band entered the studio for the first time and recorded their demo in Klepp Lydstudio. During the summer of 1997 different labels showed interest in the demo. Tristania signed with Napalm Records and released the EP Tristania.
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"'Dolores is a relatively young woman trapped in this fat, aging male body,' Mr. Vollmann said. 'I’ve bought her a bunch of clothes, but she's not grateful. She would like to get rid of me if she could.'" As of 2007, Vollmann was writing ghost and supernatural stories for a collection to be published by Viking ("Widow's Weeds" was published in AGNI No. 66 in 2007).
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Above the chancel arch is a rare figure of the Virgin and Child, described by English Heritage as 13th-century, but by the church guidebook as "probably 11th century". The apse was added by Charles Edward Davis, the Bath City Architect, between 1869 and 1872. In the nave are various monuments and memorials. A brass of Elizabeth Walsche, who died in 1441, depicted in widow's weeds, was stolen in 2002.
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She lives long enough to make various bequests, such as clothing to her mother, a fan to her sister; John invariably receives "a gallows to hang him on" and his wife may receive grief for her entire life and his children that they would have to beg, though the wife may get a widow's weeds and a quiet life, or his son the grace of God to be a man.
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Duggan drew also, shooting Lamb in the mouth, killing him instantly. He turned himself in following the shooting and was later cleared on grounds of self-defense. Lamb's widow, however, swore an everlasting hatred toward Duggan, and swore she would wear her widow's weeds until Duggan's death, and that she would dance on his grave. Although cleared in the shooting, Duggan lost a lot of his popularity over the shooting of Lamb, who was well liked in the community.
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It has never been discovered why he chose to withhold the name of his killer. Despite some of the problems he'd had, Duggan was still highly respected and his death was mourned by the whole of Leadville, with a large attendance at his funeral. Bailey Youngston, along with his business partners Tom Dennison and Jim Harrington and employee George Evans, were arrested for his murder, tried, but acquitted due to a lack of evidence. The widow of Louis Lamb danced where Duggan had been shot down, and presented her widow's weeds to Duggan's wife.
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Buckley's acting experience includes playing Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at Leatherhead. He also toured in the black comedy Widow's Weeds, and starred in numerous pantomimes, playing King in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal, Brighton. He was also an extra in the Birmingham-based soap opera Crossroads. On hearing of the sacking of one of the programme's leading cast members Noele Gordon, Bill led a campaign outside the studios of Crossroads' producer ATV in Birmingham demanding her reinstatement and performed a protest song entitled "Meg is Magic".
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Rogers, p.156, regnal date 20 Henry VI; Given by Pole in his list The Sheriffs of Devon since the Conquest as William Woodham His monumental brass and chest tomb in the Church of St Mary, Ilminster is said by William Henry Hamilton Rogers to depict him with his mother Joan Wrottesley, daughter of Sir William Wrottesley of Blore and Joan Bassett of Drayton Bassett, both in Staffordshire. It is among the best surviving brasses from the fifteenth century, and depicts him in complete plate armour exported to England by Milanese armorers; the finest of the period. His mother is wearing 'widow's weeds'.
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He was among 100 boys auditioned by Thames Television for the role of Adrian Mole, having been suggested by Michael Napier Brown. Napier Brown also recommended another actor, Lindsey Stagg, also from Northampton, who won the role of Pandora Braithwaite. In 1987 he toured the UK in the play Widow's Weeds by Anthony Shaffer.Widow's Weeds on Anthony Shaffer's website Apart from the two series of 'Adrian Mole', Sammarco's other television appearances included an interview on Des O'Connor Tonight (1985), co-presenting the first series of the children's Saturday morning show Get Fresh (1986), playing Whizzkid in the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and the geeky trainspotter in the Press Gang episode "Something Terrible" (1990).
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According to Stene, she did not know she was an official member of the band until she read an article about them after Widow's Weeds was released. After five albums with Tristania, Stene left the band in February 2007 to finish her university degree which she started but did not finish in 2000, and also because she did not like the direction of the band's recent music. Coincidentally, singer Tarja Turunen had left the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish around the same time, leading to widespread speculation that Stene would be her replacement, and Stene had to announce that this was merely a rumor."Ex-TRISTANIA Vocalist VIBEKE STENE: I Am Not The New Singer In NIGHTWISH", Blabbermouth.
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Following the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Victoria's husband, in 1861, Queen Victoria withdrew from public life and wore a black and white ensemble colloquially known as widow's weeds, which she continued to wear until her death in 1901. Under government pressure she came back into public view in 1870. However, she declined to wear her Imperial State Crown again, partly because she found it heavy and uncomfortable to wear, and partly because it would have been impossible to wear on top of her widow's cap. The new small crown was created as a substitute, meeting both the ceremonial duties of a monarch and her own desired form of dress as a widow.
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A devout Christian who chose to be baptized in the > Anglican church in adulthood, and a typically Victorian woman who wore > widow's weeds, gardened, drank tea, patronized charities and gave dinner > parties, she yet remained quintessentially Hawaiian. She wrote exquisite > chants of lament in Hawaiian, craved Hawaiian food when she was away from > it, loved to fish, hike, ride and camp out (activities she kept up to the > end of her life) and, throughout her life, took very seriously her role as a > protector of the people's welfare. In a way, she was a harbinger of things > to come in terms of Hawaii's multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society. You have > to be impressed with her eclecticism — spiritually, emotionally and > physically.
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A lesser woman would have despaired at this point but she was made of sterner stuff – an indomitable woman of great resilience. Her outstanding characteristics were: practicality, humour and her capacity to carry on through adversity. Photographs of her early widowhood show a dignified, alert attractive woman, despite the Victorian widow's weeds. These qualities gave her the will to survive and make a success of her first two schools (St Bede's and Clovelly) although she failed for various reasons to realise the full value of each when they were sold. In his autobiography, Maurice Browne writes of the end of Clovelly-Kepplestone and its effect on his mother: “When the final collapse came she was on her death bed; her three surviving children tried to keep the news from her.
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