Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three generations of the Ekdahl family. And as every strand in a tapestry contributes to the overall scene, every character in the immense family structure retains his individually but it is subsumed in an intricate picture. The mystical force of the theater binds all the members of the clan together in a world of illusion...
...says Rod Stewart, 38, something of an expert on pints. "I'd give anything for a true Scots accent." The son of a Scottish-born laborer, Stewart gargles with a working-class London rasp that will never fool them in the Highlands, but his recently tailored kilt (Stewart clan) would certainly baffle the groupies in Bel-Air. His tartan roots have the rock star a wee bit nervous about playing Glasgow during his current seven-month, 51-city world tour. "It's my heritage," says Stewart. "That's where I have to hold my head up high...
...oiled gentry; there are more than 100 families in this category in Texas with a net worth of $30 million or more each. Debrett's aristocrats are selected by Georgia Author Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass and Son Sid, and Houston's Roy Cullen III, oilmen...
...elders. Wedding ceremonies in Lia traditionally included a moment when the groom stamped on the bride's toes to establish his dominance; on wedding nights, brides in Lia customarily slept with their mothers-in-law rather than their husbands, as a symbolic lesson in obedience to the new clan. Eleni scarcely thought of leaving her rigid culture until it began to shatter violently around her. She dreamed of joining her husband in America, but she did not try to learn his Western ways. Though he had bought her a big brass bed, she slept on rugs on the floor...
...Barcelona in the years of el modernismo, or art nouveau. After 1900, when González moved to Paris, he and his sisters made a living by selling such things in a boutique. What with his metal ornaments and their laces and embroideries, the González clan in Paris was closer to the fashion industry than to the centers of the art world. González painted, mostly awkward imitations of Puvis de Chavannes. He drew, with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens...