Word: grandpas
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...half of confetti. A forest of welcoming signs rose above their heads, many bearing bizarre, if well-intended, portraits of a green-faced, Oriental-eyed Lyndon Johnson with an outsized nose like Charles de Gaulle's. The slogans were on the inscrutable side. WELCOME TEXAS GRANDPA, said one. Another somewhat ambiguously proclaimed: TEXAS
...Lighting reflects a humanist tradition seldom seen on the screen since the early films of René Clair, Renoir and De Sica. The young city visitors quicken the tempo of existence for Bambas' family. Everyone goes off to supply music at a country funeral. Later the menfolk, including Grandpa, get together with the village pharmacist to form a string quartet in a rehearsal sequence that is disrupted by intramural arguments and arthritic aches, with additional time called by Peter's giddy girl friend for sexual overtures and fun with a cat. The scene is a brilliant tour...
...Foxy Grandpa. Smith's power spans a generation. He authored the 1940 Smith Act, under which Communist Party leaders were prosecuted and convicted, and other important legislation. His apogee was between 1955 and 1961 when, as chairman, he had absolute control over the Rules Committee, and the committee often had decisive influence over the fate of bills. Smith repeatedly used that strength with great skill to block, dilute or delay social welfare legislation and civil rights bills. Though he kept the chairmanship his authority crumbled when John Kennedy and House Speaker Sam Rayburn succeeded in adding anti-Smith members...
...since the last election, now includes a large segment of liberally inclined Fairfax County, a suburb of Washington. Nonetheless, Smith's cause, like his equanimity, is far from lost. Much of the district is still rural and conservative, and there is considerable affection for the Bible-quoting, foxy grandpa who still cautions, as he has for years: "It's dangerous to send a boy to the mill...
...mere polo pony, but that didn't seem to trouble John-John Kennedy, 5. He had a grand time taking his first all-by-himself ride across the pampas on the Córdoba, Argentina, ranch of Miguel Angel Cárcano, who is an old friend of Grandpa Joe Kennedy's. Jack Kennedy himself had come to Córdoba 25 years before, and now Jackie was saying: "I want my children to learn to love Latin America as their father did. This seemed to me a good beginning." Indeed it was. Flying back to Manhattan after...