Perhaps the most remarkable part was that, in this postwar time when few women, let alone the wives of fellow artists, were given much due, Claude Lalanne was a sculptor in her own right.
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Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
21 Aug. 2026
Taking up to four wives is legal in Senegal, though the practice is a common source of tension discussed on the women’s program.
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Adrien Marotte,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 Aug. 2026
Both women endured war, the loss of parents, the loss of children, the loss of their husbands.
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Caleb Hellerman,
CNN Money,
22 Aug. 2026
According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 48 women have been elected or appointed to fill congressional vacancies created by the deaths of their husbands – 40 in the House and eight in the Senate.
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Christopher A. Cooper,
The Conversation,
20 Aug. 2026
The two divorced their spouses and began a public relationship.
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CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
26 Aug. 2026
Northlight Theatre inaugurates its swank Evanston digs with The Front Page, set in a Chicago newsroom and starring real-life spouses Kate Fry and Timothy Edward Kane.
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