Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shares wall space with mementos of her host's acquaintance with world figures. The Christmas cards that Annenberg has received annually from the Queen Mother since 1972 are on the wall. So, too, is a copy of his condolence letter, and Queen Elizabeth's reply, after her cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by Irish terrorists...
...large doses of barbiturates, which succeeded only in putting him into a semiconscious state. Two days later, according to police, two friends of Anthony Bruno's, hired by Frances for $500, showed up in the bedroom to finish the job. They were Ronald Barlip, 19, and his cousin Donald, 18. The bullet one of them allegedly fired entered an inch from Toto's heart, but it too proved not to be lethal...
...strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over Jerry Lee's marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown. Women married young back in Ferriday, La., but this was no matter to Americans either. They joined in the censure; Jerry Lee's name slid to the bottom of the pop charts, and then below...
...Black shirts. What ensues is a grotesquely comic scene of carnage, as a lot of inexperienced people shoot at each other with pamcky clumsiness. A man runs into a childhood friend with a yelp of joy, only to riddle him with bullets: a girl embraces a long lost cousin in black shirt, but her husband pushes her aside with a rifle; both sides tending to their wounded, inadvertently borrow each other's water bottles, and Cecilia's eyes, widening in fright, transform the sorry spectacle into a fantastic combat of gladiators...
Jackie is aided in her pursuit of stardom by her enterprising 14-year-old cousin Angus, played by Ross O'Donovan, an impish devil with Charlie Chaplin looks and an impeccable comic sense. Never to be found without his copy of Sexual Symbolism, at one point he accuses his grandmother of penis envy; his devotion to his cousin hints at the charmingly incestuous. So much for youthful innocence...