Word: brood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sven, Jane Louise's colleague, manages to think and talk about nothing but sex, to send a frisson of enigma and anticipation down every woman's spine, yet maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood of children and grandchildren, wears sensible tweeds, bakes cakes, attends P.T.A. meetings, and harbours a secret crush on Sven. The idealist secretary soullessly dates her high school sweetheart, and plans a lacey wedding. The country friends lead picture-perfect robust outdoor lives...
...brood. Because he never tookHollywood so seriously to begin with, he wasn'tdevastated by the downturn in his career. He'sfinancially secure; it's a good bet the chainsaround his neck do not turn green in the shower.And he's still doing the community work he'sregarded as his real calling from the start. Hesays, "I've never seen myself as a star, I nevercall myself a celebrity, or a superstar whatever.If you look at my job, my union card, it says`actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity,movie star, nothing like that, and that's onething that...
...family fare. Well, yes and no. That is to say, you could safely bundle the brood off to Into the West and no harm would come to them. But a grownup could sneak off to it all alone and have an extremely rewarding evening. For stallion and friends are Irish, meaning that an aura of Celtic mysticism surrounds the horse and a rebellious, wandering spirit moves in eight-year-old Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and 12-year-old Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy...
...Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large Power brood...
...rich, nearly famous people. The mother's second husband is a rental-car magnate. The father is co-author of the script for one of the summer's sillier comedies, and supposedly the idea for the film was suggested by the boy himself. In one aspect, though, this brood is like many other postnuclear families: last week a judge ordered the father to pay $68,804 in overdue child support...