Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...circuits sprang up, borrowing the name and fame of the original retreat. These vanished with the Depression, but Chautauqua had a grandmother's-house permanence. Richard Reddington, 40, who now directs the institution's courses in such subjects as painting, dance and Chinese literature, married into a clan of Chautauqua summer residents and found, like other newcomers, that "it was simply understood" that vacations would be spent here...
...excitedly meeting for the first time. Some stopped off to visit family sites like the grave of Haley's great-great-grandfather, Chicken George. "It was, of course, very emotional," said Haley. By the time everything wound up in that all-American ritual, the family picnic, the Haley clan was already talking about its next giant reunion...
Stavros' father Isaac, who was also to have made the trip to New York, died in Turkey as the clan was about to embark. This leaves the eldest son in the uneasy role of head of a reunited family that broods and sulks and squabbles even as it breathes the ennobling air of tenement America. His balky siblings gravely crimp this Broadway Joe's ambitions, sexual, social and financial. Has he not promised his father to keep the family together? Does he not search endlessly to find husbands for the dark-skinned sisters? Where, then, is his free...
...dimensions of the clan's royal style became clear in January 1981, when the new Miami house of the youngest Fassi brother, Tarek, then 17, was burglarized. Fourteen diamond wristwatches, 20 diamond rings, a dozen gold medallions and $480,000 in cash were stolen-and Tarek promptly bought a new house in a tiny, rich enclave called Golden Beach. At first Tarek's breaches of decorum were merely eccentric: he commuted to Florida International University, 20 miles away, in his helicopter, and draped his estate's palm trees with Christmas lights. But then, in violation of zoning...
Beginning this spring, the déclassé clan tried to turn over a new leaf; typically, it was gold. They became philanthropists, giving away as much as $1 million in a few months, apparently to buy good will. Turki gave $300,000 to the University of Miami School of Medicine. Mohammad, among his other donations, doled out $50,000 to Washington and $30,000 to Opa-Locka, Fla. (pop. 14,600). At least one offer was refused: when Tarek volunteered to pay for a new $161 million Miami stadium, city officials said it was an attempt to undermine local...