Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest Cuixart, 39, cousin of Antoni Tàpies, paints in a richly detailed impasto that he calls "the new baroque." Once a member of Dau al Set, he left to dabble in textile designs, returned to share the crown of Catalan craftsmanship with Tàpies. Cuixart says that "a renewal is taking place among those young artists who are distinguished by their absolute independence...
...their children's children. If they had married normally into the U.S. population at large, probably the gene would have stayed quiescent, with only an infinitesimal chance of sad results. But within a couple of generations, King's descendants began to marry second or third cousins. Eventually, it had to happen: a man who carried the gene married a cousin, of some degree or remove, who also carried it. Their unfortunate offspring inherited a double dose of the bad gene...
...Sharp; his cousin Rear Admiral Louis A. Sharp Jr.; Rear Admiral George C. Towner and Admiral John Hoover. Except for Oley, all are retired...
Lord Boothby, who is divorced from a cousin of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's wife, immediately wrote a letter to the Times of London denying that he was a homosexual. He sent copies of the letter to the two Mirrors, challenging them to print whatever "shred of evidence" they had against him and "to take the consequences...
Pilkington's postwar expansion and its plunge into float glass has been directed by Alastair's cousin, Sir Harry Pilkington, 58, a tall, craggy Cambridge graduate who bicycles to work. Previous Pilkington chairmen have had Httle interest in affairs outside their company, but Sir Harry is a director of the Bank of England, has served as head of government commissions that have investigated everything from TV programs to dentists' fees. He believes that a glassmaker should have a window on the world...