Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly they are everywhere, a blitzkrieg of attractive and affable-and politically acute-wives and sons and daughters-in-law, plus an occasional daughter, brother or aunt, all barnstorming the country like seasoned pros, living out of suitcases, up at 5:30 a.m. and to bed at midnight, addressing the local Kiwanis Club and staging rousing rallies in shopping centers, the gallant families of Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford, doing their bit to win the election for dear...
...younger sister, Emily Dolvin, the widow of an insurance man, has turned out to be the secret weapon of the Carter campaign-a tiny, stylishly dressed, white-haired dynamo. After she whipped through Maine, Senator Edmund Muskie called Carter to say in awe: "Everywhere I go, your Aunt Sissy is there." She is in particular demand on the senior-citizen circuit, but she delights all audiences, hauling her own bags and declaring in a soft, honeyed drawl: "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter's Aunt Sissy. I hope you'll vote for my boy for President...
...Crosse, Wis., Aunt Sissy took part in an event that epitomizes the efforts being made by the members of both the Ford and Carter families to get their man home first on election day. To gain a few local headlines that might help Nephew Jimmy along the way, Aunt Sissy sat down some 800 miles from home and-with great eclat-milked her first...
...Aunt Martha. At week's end NBC finally came up with a six-figure package that may not make her as rich as Walters, but certainly would give her a good shove toward that goal. Pauley accepted, and the network announced that she would take up her duties Oct. 11. Tom Brokaw was elated: "She's bright and enterprising and engaging, and she just happens to be pretty." Barbara Walters was gracious: "It's unfair to be called the next Barbara Walters. I hope she'll be herself." Jane Pauley was. Said...
...concedes that they might have a hard time convincing anyone that their world-view is particularly rosy work, Grey Gardens, a portrait of Edie and Edith Beale (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin), who live in senile isolation in a rundown mansion on Long Island. That film aroused sharp criticism; some felt that the movie was an outrageous invasion of privacy, while others questioned its veracity. Was it possible, they wondered, that Edie Beale acted as strangely as she did because of the camera's presence...