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...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...
...secretary to return a telephone call, the art of writing letters may seem obsolete, like designing stained-glass windows or working gold. The Adamses traditionally thought otherwise. All of them believed it their duty to posterity to record whatever happened to them, but of all that high-minded clan, only Henry was an artist...
...directors give them all equal weight. A woman, having broken off to join a group of Sicilan-American soldiers she believes are in the area, is killed by the enemy. As she dies, she imagines the young German soldier bending over her to be a member of her own clan, beckoning her to a mythical Brooklyn with the magic snow of a Statue of Liberty souvenir. And when Cecelia finally encounters the first real American soldiers, she cannot speak with them, so they make her balloons out of their supply of condoms to carry back to the group...
...Wrinkle is not the only one she speaks of in freely parental terms. Her fictional characters from a vast family network, many of them reappearing at different stages in their careers, introducing ever widening and ever crisscrossing circles of acquaintances. L 'Engle talks like the matriarch of a vast clan or more precisely their grandmother: she speculates on their moral and psychological growth and debates when and whom they will marry...
Watching the Beanpot is nothing new for the Fusco clan. Father and sons used to go to the Garden, a fact that gives the tournament extra special meaning for the due. The attraction of the Beanpot was one of the reasons both close Harvard over other Ivy League schools. Mark says he rooted for the Crimson throughout his youth "for no real reason." has Scott claims he had no favorites and pulled only for the individuals that be knew...