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...enough turmoil to sustain even two hours of television time. The First Families, as presented here, are scarcely more fascinating. Too many of them come across as interchangeable ciphers modeled on sitcom couples of the '50s. Most of the Presidents are avuncular prattlers; the First Ladies run the household and often their husbands as well...
...servants are not away from her, however. Roberts (Patsy Smart) is quickly fishing Hammond's notes out of the fire and alerting the staff to a danger in the household. Such things run in Lady Marjorie's family, she sniffs; it was not for nothing that her aunt was known as "the Bolter." Before the servants can step in, Richard finds out and gently reminds his wife that their marriage is built upon loyalty. In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906. "I have loved you as I never...
...Reporters were on hand around the clock to file accounts of how it all looked--and smelled. On December 29, one of the paper's top columnists, Roger Simon, landed an exclusive interview with Dr. Robert Stein, the talkative medical examiner who by week's end was practically a household name in Chicago. Stein, who supervised the excavations, posed on the front page before a stack of sheet-covered bodies in Crypt One of the Cook County morgue...
There is a buy-now attitude among Americans, who figure that prices are not going to go down and if they see something they like, they had better buy it now. Economist Alan Greenspan estimates that an unprecedented 25% of the average household's after-tax income now goes to meeting interest and principal payments each month, and that "there are a significant number of households that allocate 40% or more of their income to debt service...
...Firecracker) in a disconcerting Southern drawl. "I speak Vietnamese to him and he answers me in English," says Dr. Bui. Thien Nga, who at 3½ is nearly as tall as her brother, and Jo Ann, 2, both born in the U.S., compete for Bui's attention. The household also includes 14-year-old Loan, Simone's child by her first marriage. Bui's son Tuyen, 17, also from a previous marriage, is at an Arkansas boarding school that is run by the Catholic Church and has several black students...