Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the refugees have relatives here. Mrs. Martha Pina, a psychologist, welcomed her cousin Armando Pavron, 29. The son of a banker, Pavron spent seven years in a prison camp for trying to flee from Cuba. He dropped to 110 lbs. working the sugar-cane fields. He is now employed as a dishwasher at Plaza Dining in Secaucus. "Even though I have a university degree, I am happy to wash dishes," he says as he scrubs pots. "First I will learn English. Then I will go back to college. I don't want any charity...
Translation: the biggest thing wrong with Southern women is Southern men. Maybe so. But Daniell's argument is not nearly as compelling as the relatives and acquaintances she uses for illustration: the cousin who took to bed for 20 years after her father forbade her to marry the man she loved, the car-crazy boyfriend whose kisses tasted of brake fluid, the professor who had an arrowed heart containing the legend "Mother" tattooed on his groin...
...camera that has worked this change in the eye of the viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older...
...born a democracy and had none of the trappings of feudalism. The members of the du Pont family would have a horse-laugh at the expense of that thesis. The du Ponts were a self-proclaimed aristocracy, a family that preferred its sons and daughters to marry cousins so as not to sully the family blood. By the 1920s they were the wealthiest and most powerful family in the country. They controlled General Motors and U.S. Rubber, as well as their own corporation. People said they owned the state of Delaware--and, in a way, they did. Individual du Ponts...
After General Henry, the most successful director of the company was P.S. du Pont; and it is on P.S. and his cousin Alfred I. du Pont that Mosley focuses the rest of the book. His fascination with these two men is obvious; he reveals their motives and characters as if he knew them. If Mosley were any less meticulous with his and notes you might think he had fabricated scenes in order to create lively portraits...