Word: elder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Illinois.Sources close to the case tell TIME reporter Lisa Towle that the defense has evidence that no blood was found in the car. Furthermore, the defense claims it has been denied dental records that police say prove a corpse found in a South Carolina swamp was really the elder Jordan. On top of that, Towle says, the flamboyant defense attorney and his team have a reputation for creating confusion: "I don't think they expect anyone to buy this lock, stock and barrel, but this gives them that wedge of doubt...
Barich is still an interested, accurate observer, a brave striker-up of conversations with unpromising locals, but his goofy optimism is mostly gone. Part of it is perspective, of course; he and the other Haight-Ashbury kids were looked on by their elders as nihilistic and futureless a quarter-century ago. Now he's an elder, not quite a senior, but no longer a prankish sophomore...
Most cities are stories, continuing narratives that have to be learned and experienced to be appreciated. Here, you can't get away from it; every other building was once inhabited by a literary giant, a Puritan elder and an Irish pol. Today, their descendants live there--John Updike, Bill Weld and Billy Bulger--sharing the city with newer Bostonians to different ethnicities...
...family or his schools. He tried the University of Tennessee twice and the U.S. Air Force once. He married a young woman from college named Lee Holleman, the first of his two wives, and they had a son, Cullen, who is an architect in Spain. The elder McCarthy's first book was The Orchard Keeper, an unsentimental, striking, powerful, lovely commemorative to a gone way of life in the old Tennessee hills that ended so portentously it made you want to snatch Faulkner from the grave and choke him for his influence...
...style and religious upbringing. To the Kennedys, the Hyannis Port fracas was the only way to live. Rose nattered about the church. But despite later gossip, Jackie settled into a friendly relation with her former in-laws. An old friend recalls a dinner in Paris with Onassis and the elder Mrs. Kennedy, when the two ladies gossiped endlessly about White House days. Then Jackie insisted that Ari take them on to a nightclub. "You know," she told him, "Rose hasn't been to a nightclub since Joe took her to the Lido in 1936." Evenings like that kept the marriage...