Word: clans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong, 66, a retired doctor and Zhu Rongji's cousin. "That caused many of them problems after the revolution--even myself...
...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...think your family holidays are tense, be grateful you're not a member of the Redgrave clan. Last Thanksgiving, while Oscar nominee LYNN REDGRAVE prepared the turkey for a houseful of guests, her manager and husband of 32 years JOHN CLARK decided to break some rather uncelebratory news. It seems that eight years earlier Clark had an affair with his personal assistant, Nicolette. The tryst produced a son, whose paternity remained secret. Then Nicolette got married...to Redgrave and Clark's son Ben, who soon learned he had become his half-brother's stepfather. Ben and Nicolette eventually split...
...smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly good warrior-king for the cute but feckless Paris. Juliet fell for a scion of the enemy clan. In rock-'n'-roll tradition and movies from The Wild One to Shakespeare in Love, it's the penniless no-account who makes the girls scream--and did anyone see Titanic...
...Order your Mom a fancy $12 mixed drink, Schmooze with he B-school elite. To cap off the evening, take the whole family to your final club of choice. If you've got a sister, make sure she's appropriately attired--I recommend tight and revealing. Once the whole clan is sufficiently sloshed, stumble back onto the streets of Gambridge, wander back to your dorm room, wake up all your roommates, and pass out on the floor. In the morning, when their hangovers wear off, your parents will thank you. You will have treated them to a genuine Harvard experience...