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...they get their hands on a monsterosity the medical profession don't know when to stop." A man who calls himself a king of the Gypsies is asked his age: "Between forty-five and seventy-five . . . My hair's been white for years and years, and I got seventeen grandchildren, and I bet I'm an old, old man." (His story was so enchanting that a Broadway musical, Bajour, was based on Mitchell's profile; it ran for 234 performances during the 1964 season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collector Of Lost Souls | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Buchanan glared like a Jesuit prefect of discipline and stabbed the air. His rendition was family values in the bully's mode -- an appeal to visceral prejudices, not to American ideals. Barbara Bush and the tableau of Bush children and grandchildren transmitted a softer version, a kind of Pepperidge Farm, white-bread appeal in handsome plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...feelings for Rabin, whose government has canceled Likud's plans to build 6,500 houses in the territories but will continue with 10,000 others. He invited Rabin to stay overnight -- making him one of only five world leaders to do so -- and introduced him to his mother and grandchildren. More tangibly, Bush promised to guarantee the repayment of up to $10 billion in bank loans Israel will obtain over five years to energize its economy and help it absorb immigrants from the former Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Take $10 Billion, I'll Take California | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

Romer leaves a daughter, two sons, a sister,seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Amemorial service will be held at 2 p.m. September11 in the First Parish (Unitarian) Church inHarvard Square

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Hibbard Romer Dies at 90; Brought Reforms to City Politics | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

...dance with the rest of the family. It was a Norman Rockwell tableau that could persuade older voters that the first all-baby-boomer ticket won't ignore them, signaling that while they may be the younger generation, they are still the type to bring the grandchildren home for the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton's Big Bash | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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