Word: brood
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rife with disappointment and anguish? Though it sounds like the makings of a great Stephen Sondheim musical, hopefully this reality television breakup will never make it to the stage. The fascination with this dysfunctional duo continues to mystify, although their eight offspring would admittedly be the most adorable singing brood to hit the theater since the Von Trapp children...
...progressive, prolific Wellwoods - prolific in both writing and childbearing, Olive and Humphry have a brood of seven - and their artsy friends and acolytes form the core of Byatt's novel, and they are an invigorating bunch. Fin de siècle England was bursting with new ideas and beliefs (socialism, suffragism, anarchism, free love), and Byatt's characters are exuberant participants, joining, lecturing, writing, rebelling, and navigating the fallout when their experiments (particularly in the free-love category) come to grief...
...Kennedy legacy has long rested on the shoulders of its two most glowing sons: He Who Was President (John) and He Who Could Have Been (Bobby). Yet it may be He Who Never Was--Teddy, the youngest in the nine-sibling Kennedy brood--who has had the most lasting impact. In this memoir, finished before he died of brain cancer on Aug. 25, the Massachusetts Senator draws on half a century's worth of journal entries and other notes to reconstruct a life full of seemingly endless tribulations. True Compass covers the violent deaths of his three older brothers...
When they spring their adopted baby on the family and the whole messy brood welcomes her--"She's one of us now! Lemme see the little pot sticker!" Jay declares--it's a perfect ending for a promising pilot. That's what family means: the second you join, it's as if they've known you forever. Then you spend the rest of your lives surprising one another...
...will brood around for the first hour or so while coming to terms with the fact that they have to party when they should be out looking for the diplomat's daughter. Or something like that. The BSA/BMF combo will pick up the slack...