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...this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between art and life these days, he wasn't being just noble but realistic...
...this impromptu shrine, a griever named Creek left a rock he had found on a nearby beach. "I hope Jerry's happy," he said. Creek, who has attended nearly 200 Dead concerts, is four years old. The boy's mother, Kathy, 23, watched over him through her dreadlocks. "I hope he remembers this day," she murmured. "It's a special thing--to feel all the love...
...Gibson in The Man Without a Face: "I'm a reclusive griever whose disfigured face and mysterious past have isolated me from human feeling. But I'll tutor a fatherless 12-year-old boy so he gets into a prep school. I will learn much in return...
...Congressman was too obscure to issue a eulogy of the dead Speaker. One potent griever was Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, majority leader; another Representative William Bankhead of Alabama, Chairman of the potent Rules Committee; a third, Representative John McDuffie, also of Alabama. By normal "right of succession," Leader Byrns should be elected Speaker in January. Mr. McDuffie was an unsuccessful candidate when Rainey was elected in March, 1933. These two, Mr. Bankhead, and perhaps others, will doubtless be candidates for the Speakership again. A many-sided quarrel arousing factional bitterness will not make it any easier...
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