Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road with sample reels of their movies-in-progress, seeking to find buyers at film festivals and industry conventions all over the world. One independent, John Sayles, director of the 1984 hit The Brother from Another Planet, finances his own movies by grinding out screenplays like The Clan of the Cave Bear for major Hollywood studios...
This is no easy task, given the hurly-burly of a crowded plot. The pair pick up the trail of a drug-smuggling ring, and the film never quite persuades us that a smart group like this one would turn on the Murtaugh clan in order to scare off Dad. But it is hard to focus on such fine points, given the dark intensity with which Director Richard Donner stages the nonstop action of the film's final 30 minutes. Among movie bone crackers, he is the one who seems to have an advanced degree in chiropractic...
...study published last week focused on one 81-member clan. Fourteen members had been diagnosed with manic depression and another five with other mental disorders. Thanks to unusual cooperation from the family, the researchers were able to obtain blood from each member and then isolate DNA from each sample. Using so-called restriction enzymes, they "cut" the DNA into segments. When they compared gene segments from manic depressives with those from normal family members, they found a discrepancy in a region of chromosome 11. Their conclusion: a gene or group of genes in or near this region confers a predisposition...
...Allen finds cross section enough in a single source, an extended lower-middle-class Jewish family in Rockaway, Queens. Among these dreamers by the glowing dial, the most touching and memorable is again a woman, Aunt Bea (played with becoming lack of sentiment by Dianne Wiest). Since this nameless clan lives near Allen's old neighborhood and includes a shy, slender, red-haired boy, the unwary may conclude that Allen is being autobiographical...
...wealth, however, the clan was known for an unostentatious reserve, and throughout her childhood, as ever after, Cory preferred to be overlooked. At a series of the country's most exclusive girls' convent schools she was remembered, when she was remembered at all, as a bright, devout girl and the perennial class valedictorian. In 1946, when her family left war-torn Manila for the U.S., the 13-year-old Filipina with bobbed hair enrolled in the Ravenhill Academy, a Catholic girls' school in Philadelphia, and later in the Notre Dame Convent school in New York City. Cory's four college...