... and strictly interpreting eligibility laws, treasury officials rejected many applications, but the impression that the state was abandoning the widows and orphans of national heroes was politically untenable for presidents and legislators. In addition to preserving Spanish regulations that granted pensions...

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... many applications, but the impression that the state was abandoning the widows and orphans of national heroes was politically untenable for presidents and legislators. In addition to preserving Spanish regulations that granted pensions to widows and orphans of officers who married with prior permission...

... This chapter explores the connections between organic and inorganic matter and digital video aesthetics in Agnès Varda’s documentaries The Gleaners and I (2000) and The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and her video installation Widows of Noirmoutier (2006). In a seeming paradox, all of these works...

...: a “suspicious package” is found to contain two live lobsters. Real estate agent visits Hettie, she gives him memoir, building is on literary walking tour. John Wieners dies; Hettie thinks of Fee and John drunk on way to heaven. Fee’s widow, Susan Maldovan, is evicted from loft Fee lived in thirty-eight years...

... Grand Prize, São Paulo Biennale. Helene makes masks. Hettie’s memoir gets great Kirkus review while she’s copyediting memoir by John Belushi’s widow Judy. Helene tapes Hettie’s radio interviews, memoir praised as “valuable social document”; Henry Louis Gates and others send nice letters. NY Times...