Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictator had created. Whether the enigmatic Prince, 36, can meet these hopes is as problematical as the currents of suppressed rage and rebellion that course through Spain. Some hard-line conservatives perceive the Prince as a weakling incapable of wielding power. Their choice may be Juan Carlos' cousin, Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, 38, husband of Franco's granddaughter...
...some what like Kawabata's other works in its disregard of conventional plot, proceeding back and forth across time only by a logic of association. It also possesses an uncharacteristic and rather clammy eroticism. In this claustrophobic reverie, Gimpei Momoi, a 34-year-old schoolteacher, a dim cousin of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, disconsolately follows women, or schoolgirls, through the streets. Filled with a "masochistic self-disgust" that has its origins in his own deformed feet, Gim pei (which might almost be some accidental translingual pun - "Momoi the Gimp") is another of literature's repellent voyeurs...
...made this impossible. Men of modern power perhaps can be nothing else, so exigent and awesome are the demands upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions, but we can now by contrast...
...With shrapnel in his legs, arms and chest, Louw managed to crawl to the telephone and call for help before he passed out. Today, at 45, he is back on the farm with a cousin and teen-age son to help him; they live in a dramatically transformed household. It is now surrounded by a chain-wire fence, topped by barbed wire. Powerful searchlights flood the bush at night...
...HEART AND ONE SOUL. Hen Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially...