Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City, in 1958. But when she was awarded her master's degree in education from Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., Joan Kennedy, 44, seemed in a class by herself. Though she has been on her own for the past three years, Joan was joined by her immediate Kennedy clan-estranged Husband Senator Edward Kennedy, 49, Daughter Kara, 20, and Sons Teddy Jr., 19, and Patrick, 13. The new graduate's future plans: life as a single, and a career involving music and children...
...joint villain is the Hubbard clan, a trio of plunderers in magnolia land. The family trade is cotton; its god is greed. The younger brother, Oscar (Joe Ponazecki), is a man with a sycophantic spirit and an ugly habit of slapping his genteel, alcohol ic wife Birdie (Maureen Stapleton). The older brother, Ben (Anthony Zerbe), is a cigar-chomping Machiavelli. As their sister Regina, Taylor salivates in her lust for wealth, power and position...
...blurb in the Boston Globe which mentioned that Ken would be attending Harvard in the fall. That discovery had set the wheels in motion, and after a series of very confusing intrigue and communications between Ken's mother--of the New Jersey Plutnickis--and members of the Massachusetts Plutnicki clan, someone finally devined the fact that Ken's great-grandmother and Robert's great-grandfather were siblings, who had been separated early in this century and had lost track of each other. If all this sounds very confusing, that's because...
...Clan of the Cave Bear, Auel 10. Loon Lake, Doctorow...
Henry began with a funny situation but no plot. So he resorted to a feeble device: the meeting of senescent civilization (the President's clan) and wily savagery (the potentates of Upper Gorm, an African nation with rich uranium deposits). When Newhart meets the Gormese, the two men cannot understand each other, which makes for five minutes of ennui. They are not the only odd couple in the film. In scene after scene, behavioral comedy attempts to engage in a dialogue with slapstick satire. But these are different comic languages, and the two forms finally fall silent in defeat...