Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iroqois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into one of those hollows where a man had kin. The only excitement of the trip, made in mid-winter on horseback, was that it would kill the two children he had even while his wife gave birth to another, whom Jaybird named William McLean Bell, after his own father...
...medication does not help everyone, and in the 1960s physicians began turning to a more powerful weapon?me-thylsergide maleate (Sansert), a chemical kin of LSD. One drawback: it must be used cautiously because of its occasionally serious side effects (hallucinations, nausea, vascular disease...
...hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when an-ugh! -Dogpatch maiden kin ketch-sob!-a Dogpatch bachelor...
...death. A glutton for punishment, Mastroianni has been lured back for another Ferreri satire. Called Bye Bye Monkey!, it is about an aging, asthmatic gardener who wanders down to a dump in a nameless large city and finds the remains of a movie monster named Macho Kong (no kin to King Kong). Hearing a whimpering sound within the monster's body, Marcello the gardener pulls out a baby chimpanzee, whom he treats like a child. "It's a fantasy film. You know, surreal," says Mastroianni, 53. "But after all," he asks with a Latin shrug...
...multimillion-dollar empire cannot even be calculated (much of it is in future royalties). According to the terms of his will filed in a Tennessee court last week, Elvis' father, Vernon Presley, 62, is instructed to divide the estate among family members as he sees fit. The only kin mentioned were Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie, 9, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, 85. The document, signed last March, makes no bequest to the singer's ex-wife Priscilla, 32, or his fiancee, Ginger Alden, 20, who found his body in the bathroom. Nor does Presley...