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...blood skips a generation. Sage “had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood!) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy.” Yet though Sage is vain and selfish, she is also clever, shy and a book-lover. Interestingly, she never learns how to tell time but can translate Latin effortlessly...
Hank III, whose real first name is Shelton, has the weakest set of lungs in the dynasty. He also freely concedes that his songwriting chops don't rank with his grandpa's. The exquisite gift the youngest Hank has inherited is a stone-cold ability to create music about the battle between Saturday night and Sunday morning that rages in the mind of a drinker who wants to stop. When Hank III describes the joys of booze, the guitar boogies along just loud and hard enough--and without weighing down the melody--to suggest the pleasure he finds. When...
...Rock are content to crow about what naughty boys they are. Hank III, in contrast, is quieter, more self-deprecating and ultimately more moving in his portrayal of bad behavior than most artists in any genre on the radio. That may not make him the towering figure his grandpa was, but it does make him a chip off the original block...
...shut down in the '70s, and even famously dissolute Bangkok is reportedly bereft of a working opium den, the pipes consigned to antique stalls at the Saturday flea markets. The fast-lane kids of Asia's supercities prefer to get their kicks smoking speed or swallowing Es. Opium is grandpa's drug...
...power of multigenerational housing has become a draw for Americans as they rediscover the virtues of the extended family. Developers like Del Webb are creating communities across the country designed for Mom, Dad, the kids--and Grandma and Grandpa. Hope has taken this natural, practical template a step farther. Qualified adults who commit to adopting up to four kids are offered free rent, a $19,000 salary for one parent to stay home and a vast network of support. Low-to-middle-income seniors receive reduced rent in exchange for volunteering a minimum of six hours a week. The result...