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Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. had two political forebears. His father, a Boston city councilman, taught him the give-and-take of local politics: ringing doorbells, listening to constituents, handing out favors. Then, when O'Neill went to Washington in 1953 after winning Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District (John F. Kennedy's old seat), he was adopted by the savvy John McCormack, dean of the Massachusetts delegation and later Speaker of the House. McCormack opened doors for him, and today O'Neill calls his "father-son" relationship with McCormack his "greatest break...
...film called Luxo Jr. goes even further. The 90-sec. sequence, created by former Disney Animator John Lasseter, manages to charge two perfectly realistic desk lamps with the emotional intensity of a father-son relationship. When Luxo Jr. accidently bursts his bouncing ball, the film evokes sadness, compassion and remorse with nothing more than the wave of a lamp cord and the dip of a smooth, metallic head. "Reality is a convenient measure of complexity," says Smith. "But why be restricted to reality...
...Connection- style wrong-way run on the L.A. freeways may be more spectualar, but Arthur Penn's chase scene, dismissed by most critics, is exciting in a precise, stripped-down way. It gets an equal measure of audience applause in the theatres, presumably because of rooting interest in the father-son duo at the heart of the film...
...world may someday end with a whimper, but evidence is mounting that the dinosaurs went out with a bang. According to the much debated theory proposed by the father-son team Luis and Walter Alvarez in 1980, an asteroid or comet slammed into the earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, spewing so much dust into the atmosphere that sunlight was blocked for months. Temperatures plummeted, plants withered, and many species, including the mighty dinosaurs, perished en masse...
Answer to this week's trivia question: the last father-son combination happened, coincidentally, at Columbia, where Coach Aldo T. Donelli coached his son, Richard...