Word: cousine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cousin, once a thin, cerebral chemical engineering student at the University of Maine, left school five years ago when he decided to teach himself how to build houses. He has learned well and has also bought farmland and taught himself how to farm. Now he looks as strong and healthy as a bear. My cousin is the best argument I've yet seen for Wing and Cole's assertion that people should teach themselves how to build, and for the larger assertion that people should learn to rely more on their own skills...
...Street calls the "tits and bums" school of journalism; his London tabloids, the News of the World and the Sun (combined circ. 9 million), celebrate crime and cheesecake. In the U.S., Murdoch's three-year-old national Star (circ. 1.3 million) is a gaudy but not particularly profitable cousin of the mindless National Enquirer, and his San Antonio Express and News (combined circ. 156,000) is even worse (sample scoops: UNCLE TORTURES TOTS WITH HOT FORK, HANDLESS BODY FOUND, GIRLS STREAK AT GUNPOINT). Yet Murdoch also publishes Australia's only national daily, The Australian, which at least aspires...
...other outsiders who flocked to the town to observe the events at Jimmy Carter's church. One deacon complained to a reporter: "We don't feel like swapping a church for a President. You have made our Sunday into a spectacle." Another deacon, Carter's cousin Hugh, a state senator, told reporters: "We are trying to work out a solution that will keep our church and our community from disintegrating...
Fictive Aunts. Slaves, unlike their owners, says Gutman, almost never married their cousins, suggesting that blacks were not emulating white marriage customs but possibly following ancient West African kinship patterns. Other records indicate a strong sense of family: children were commonly named after parents and grandparents, and slaves often retained the last name of their former slaveowner to keep alive the sense of black family solidarity. When wholesale shifting of slaves broke up families, blacks tended to create fictive aunt, uncle and cousin relationships to keep the kinship ideal alive...
...decidedly mixed blessing. Most prominently, the program offers two splendid performances. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Shelley Duvall brings a graceful vulnerability and unguarded beauty to the role of an ugly-duckling adolescent who is first encouraged in social flirtations, then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right...