Word: brood
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...eight children; in Detroit. Mrs. Cavanagh charged the mayor with drunkenness, and punching her in the stomach while she was pregnant; he said she conspired with his political enemies and used "mule-skinners' language" in front of the children. The judge gave Cavanagh custody of four of the brood. Mrs. Cavanagh says she will appeal, charging that the judge knuckled under to "political pressure...
...have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet gal, but for a low-salaried suburban house maid, she sports a wardrobe of high-fashion creations that would bat the false eyelashes of any model from Park...
...sits in an armchair made from antlers, munching a fine cheese taken from his bright yellow refrigerator, Schneider can never brood for long. After all, there are more concerts to be presented, neglected sonatas to be dug out, protégés to be promoted. "Plans I have for the future by the thousands," he says, brightening. "How many will work, I don't know. But without them...
...1960s, Miró has also turned to huge bronze totems, cast in molds made from found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very...
...Hyannisport Mass., where he comforted his aged parents, and Hickory Hill, where, as the new head of the family, he had to sort out the details of where some of his brother's children will attend school next year and make other domestic arrangements. Normally, Bobby's brood would have been planning last week for a summer in Hyannisport, a logistical move approximating the establishment of an Antarctic outpost. Now the move will be delayed for at least a week...