Word: descendantal
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The descendant of a distinguished New England family, Fuller was the fifth generation of his family to go to Harvard. He was expelled in 1914 for blowing his tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory...
The format is that of a magazine show, a video descendant of the starry-eyed Hollywood "fanzines" of the 1940s and '50s. Accompanied by music that sounds like game-show themes speeded up to 78 r.p.m., the show revels in glitzy, vertigo-inducing computer graphics. Says E.T. Director Steve...
In this, as in other stories, Fisher has proved to be a true and worthy descendant of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the great 19th century French epicure whose classic The Physiology of Taste Fisher lovingly translated in 1949. "Gastronomy rules all life," he wrote. "The newborn baby's tears...
A lengthy journey begins with the agonies of death ("Volcanic lips give fire, wells bubble. Bone lies like rubble upon the wound"). Surviving this fiery purgation is the ka (diminished soul) of an Egyptian named Menenhetet II. After experiencing the mummification of his discarded body, this ghost meets the kindred...
"He's so greasy he glides when he walks." This is Tulsa 1966, where lines of class and style are drawn as sharply as in any war, and there is no demilitarized zone. On one side is the "greaser," teen descendant of Elvis, Brando and James Dean; poor white...