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...parents in greeting the 500 guests, danced one dance with her father Prince Rainier, and then sat out the others at the royal table. There was a sprinkling of Princess Grace's friends from the old days, including Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Only Kennedy Clan Favorite Andy Williams, who sang, got the attention of the very shy, very pretty princess...
Burundi's handsome Tutsi President Colonel Michel Micombero, 33, who came to power seven years ago by ousting the decadent royal clan, denies any intent to exterminate the Hutus. He likes to point out that many of them belong to his Uprona Party, and claims that much of the killing has resulted from invasion attempts by Hutus living in exile in Tanzania. Seated in the summer house of his lakeside palace while two crested cranes paced back and forth in a nearby cage, Micombero explained: "Just as in the U.S. and most other countries, it is the political majority...
...reason, he eschewed the stock devices of werewolves and vampires for a more intimate horror. In stories like Arthur Jermyn and Rats in the Walls, he exploited the rich theme of contaminated blood as it percolates implacably through successive generations. In The Lurking Fear, an entire upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed, shocking creatures with the hideous habits of man-eating moles...
Jackie called out to a roomful of the clan. "What do you mean, we?" Ethel answered, cutting her cold. Nurse Dallas recalls that the next day Jackie asked her about her own lonely years as a widow and spent the day walking to "all the familiar places that were dear to her and the President." Later Jackie laid her cheek on Joseph Kennedy's hand and whispered, "You'll always know I love you, won't you, Grandpa?" Not long after, Jackie married...
...elements of nature which allow them to live, and their history follows a seasonal cycle. Ancestors are perpetually reborn, and the traditions they established are honored. The community is so constant and so small that all the necessary functions of hunting, fishing or farming are effortlessly fulfilled by clans, and punishment is meted out by customs in no way legalistic. Schwarz-Bart not only creates a pastoral dream -- indeed, the more chastening aspects of the culture may strike his audience harshly -- but a dream of a culture with a communal definition of humanity. When a would-be bride is thought...