Word: clan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high notes. Alison Carey's Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some of the stature you might expect...
...fiefdoms continue, but with total votes down in almost every case, the barbarians are at the door. The effort among some independents to unite in the CCC was no real salve to their political wounds. And as Frisoli, who had the support of the old-line Frisoli-DiGuglielmo political clan proved, it is very, very difficult to carve out a new personal base...
White, always lucky, sat back and watched Timilty vie with the Pope and the Kennedy clan for headline space, just as the challenger had to cope with the World Series Red Sox four years...
...Educated at Catholic schools, she was 22 when she wed Edward Moore Kennedy. From her wedding day, "Joansie," as Ted called her, found herself buffeted by the demands on a Kennedy wife. The hardest thing, she said shortly after her marriage, "is learning to keep up with the clan." Only years later could she admit: "I tried to be like the Kennedys, bouncy and running all over. But I could never be that." Even her repeated miscarriages seemed a special failure. "Subconsciously," said Joan, "I'd like to have been like Ethel and had one baby after another...
...battle is also raging in East Cambridge, where incumbents Alfred E. Vellucci and Frisoli are facing a strong challenge from Bentubo. Frisoli doesn't live in the Italian East Cambridge, but his ties with the Frisoli-Deguglielmo political clan won him support there two years ago. Vellucci, a 30-year fixture in city government, wins each election with the backing of a large personal network. But Bentubo is putting the pressure on. The owner of Richard's Arco has poured more than $5000, much of it from family members, into the campaign, and his posters and placards blanket (and litter...