Word: aurora
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...just that . . . well, I marveled at my mother-in-law ((Dona Aurora Aquino)) and how she could campaign. She was perfect at it; she could give speeches. And I thought, Thank God she can do this for me! She was the type who could kiss babies. As the wife of the mayor in Concepcion, I was expected to go to every wake. Initially, the corpses would be in a bed with just a sheet or curtain over them. My mother-in-law could handle all this, but it was all I could do to look at them. Many nights...
...that belief gives Aquino a firmness that can turn into stubbornness. Indeed, her very real sense that she is an instrument of God's will prompts friends and relatives to refer to her career, again and again, as a "mission." Says her mother-in-law and confidante, Dona Aurora Aquino: "I think this is a mission for her, to put her country in shape. Then she can retire. Ninoy's assassination was his fate. The presidency is hers." Cory often says the same thing...
...sense of risk in the surviving paintings gave them an intriguing tension, as though their radiance had been snatched from the very jaws of entropy. His best works, like Beth Gimel, 1958, or Beth Chaf, 1959, touch upon the exalted otherness of nature (one might be looking at an aurora borealis or a butte), and their concentration on broad effect of light and color, coupled with the impersonality of their technique, seems to connect back through Georgia O'Keeffe's watercolors to 19th century American luminism. (To visit Washington in the spring and see its broad avenues framed...
...versatile Gerard Pangaud, formerly the owner of a two-star Paris restaurant that bore his name. He has thrown in his lot with Joseph Baum, the inventive New York impresario who created The Four Seasons and Windows on the World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl and a pungent lemon hazelnut torte. Enthusiastic over what he calls le reve americain (the American dream), Pangaud says, "I love the open-mindedness of this country...
...government soldiers. In the first attack, which occurred near Gumaca, about 90 miles southeast of Manila, guerrillas killed 13 military people. Two days later, eleven soldiers died in an ambush some 230 miles north of Manila. The following day, seven more were killed in a shoot-out in the Aurora province...