Word: jacks
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...Kennedy began during a touch-football game in 1942 at the PT Boat School in Melville, R.I. Fay, a California native who died Sept. 23 at 91, had just enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was tossing the pigskin with a few classmates when a skinny junior officer named Jack asked if he could play...
...recounted witnessing Joseph Kennedy, the family patriarch, scold his children during a dinner in 1959 for spending too much money. After an uncomfortable silence, JFK piped up, "We've come to the conclusion that the only solution is to have Dad work harder." As Fay observed, it was classic Jack...
...Mulligan is again in coming-of-age mode. In the pre-swinging London of 1961, Jenny is already a star of sorts: the smartest, most self-possessed student in her class. Her goal is to be accepted into Oxford; she wants it, and so does her rather overbearing father Jack (Alfred Molina) in the staid, lower-middle-class suburb of Twickenham. But Jenny knows that there's more to life than excelling in her courses, swanning and smoking with her girlfriends and lying in her bedroom communing with Juliette Greco records. She needs an education in life studies...
...decided to defer till she's 17. All she asks is that, when the time comes, David should "treat me like an adult." (Apres-sex, she remarks, with more curiosity than regret, "All that poetry, and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all.") Father Jack should be opposed to David as a suitor, but he practically pimps the girl to him. Jack's rule for courtship is the same as for placement at Oxford: he wants Jenny to consort with the upper class so she can marry well. What else is an education...
...love interest in The Seagull, easily inhabits David, making him a creature of charm and mystery. The smaller roles are nicely filled out as well, including Cara Seymour as Jenny's quiet mother and Matthew Beard as a gauche student whose dreams of dating a precocious teen Jenny and Jack keep smashing...