Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side, managed his election campaigns, and, as Kerner's director of state revenue, helped arrange the race-track stock deal that led to their both being convicted last week. "Kerner's unblemished record was broken by his inability to withstand the enormous pressures of evil that descend upon the person who sits in the Governor's chair," said Daniel Walker, who now sits in the same Governor's office...
...nation's colleges and universities, January can be the busiest month. Christmas vacation ends; midyear exams are either just beginning or just completed; the basketball season heats up-and corporate recruiters descend on campus to start their annual quest for talent. In recent years the job market dwindled. Now, though there may be snow on the quad from Princeton to Portland State, the winter of student discontent is waning...
...hero, Young Winston is a highly entertaining film, From the little threaticals of young Winnie with his nanny and toy soldiers to his exploits in India and the Boer War, the film maintains a fast pace which is bolstered by a superb cast. If the battle scenes sometimes descend below the level of fury of a snowball fight in the Lowell House courtyard, the scenes in Parliament, Ascot, and the Editorial Office of the London Times have a special flavor that probably comes close to the personality of the Edwardian period, the last time England was very sure of herself...
...story line is brilliantly absurd, beginning with Dixon's exulting over the perfect political pitch: support for the rights of fetuses. The Boy Scouts descend on Washington in unanticipated, but outraged protest. If Dixon supports the burn . They reason he most also favor me tercourse. How can they believe that, Trick E. wonders, after his lifelong attempt to disassociate himself "from anything remotely resembling a human body...
...THIS POINT, the film threatens to descend into a quaint metaphysical consideration of the relations between art and life, imagination and reality, and so on. But when Rosemonde herself (Bulle Ogier) enters the scene, the drift of the story changes completely. She turns out to be an absolutely intriguing girl with whom Pierre, after his first interview, finds clinical detachment quite impossible. The two soon begin an affair, and Paul--who had determined not to set eyes on Rosemonde in order to preserve the integrity of his imaginary creation--accidentally meets her at Pierre's home and immediately finds further...