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...ruinous double love life, he is ordered to the Deep South to close a deal for some Sisleys and Vuillards belonging to a crusty old patriarch named Loomis Gage. For Gage, read Snopes; Henderson is soon in far beyond his depths of courage or cunning with this moody, devious clan. The old man's fortune comes from some patents he took out on parking-lot design when he noticed cars on the road after World War I. Eventually the courts caught up with him, and dwindling reserves have forced the Gages into some rascally conniving and serious plans...
...removes his trousers in a public plaza, causing bystanders to cheer. Sister Blanca is regarded as the only normal member of the family because she shows "not the slightest inclination for her mother's spiritualism or her father's fits of rage." Still, she is the first among the clan's women to bed down outside her class...
...closed. But Theo is not satisfied at this magnanimous vote of confidence. He finds the fellow who planted the joint (a hulking bully nicknamed "the Enforcer") and brings him home to confess to his parents. The tough guy inexplicably complies. Indeed, he is so impressed with the trusting Huxtable clan that he winds up playing football with Theo's pals. On The Cosby Show, it is not merely unthinkable that a "good" boy might smoke marijuana; delinquents who do are redeemed by a single visit to the Happy House of Cosby...
...Atenabe," who has managed to blow $100,000 betting on U.S. high school basketball games. Before they land, Bill has invited Mike to stay with the Atenabes, whose home sprawls over one-eighth of an acre in Tokyo. Mike is not one for making snap judgments, but the Atenabe clan is certainly unusual. Take Poppa Kobe, for example. He is being forced into retirement by a giant conglomerate, but not before an attractive female deprogrammer has been sent to squeeze everything he learned on the job out of his head. Then he can open a noodle shop, like...
Music has always been integral to the Wolff clan--his parents and his children play various instruments and his ancestors built pianos. But Wolff continues the tradition in a different vein--as a music historian...