Word: kins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans elect a President, but they inevitably get his kin as well. Into the grave splendor of his new job the President's relatives intrude a certain amount of life's awkwardness, humiliation and sheer mess. At the very least, they bring a domestic realism that no manipulator of presidential image will ever succeed in expunging...
From the start of his presidency, Jimmy Carter has had to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Brother Billy. Capitalizing on his instant notoriety as a colorful presidential next of kin, Billy Carter has done everything-for a fee-from judging belly-flop diving contests to promoting a beer named after him. Last year Billy finally ended up in the renowned alcoholic rehabilitation service of the Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center for a seven-week drying out. Things were less antic for a while, but last week, adding to Jimmy Carter's woes this election year, Billy...
...first, he seems fascinated by the Southern notion of kin, families that bind when the shit starts flying. But then he turns to Southern sex, and then Southern drinking, and finally to Southern marriage. The men in this seedy world dominate the women and think nothing of taking a fist to the source of their romantic troubles. They are full of guts and fighting nerve, the leathery types who jumped at the chance to wade through the rice paddies near Da Nang. Watching them at leisure makes them no more appealing...
...loves that can only be compared to an ancient family quarrel: tediously familiar, yet ever fresh in its capacity to wound. On both sides of the Atlantic, one regularly hears the ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only partly European. Besides, kith and kin are apt to have harsher conflicts than total strangers. At the outset, America defined itself against Europe (a fact neatly re- versed in Henry Kissinger's latter-day complaint that Europe seems to be able to unite only against Amer-ica). The U.S. saw itself-and to a great...
...officials screen the would-be exiles and allow them to board American passenger vessels and chartered airliners for safer passage across the straits. First, the U.S. had to know just which of the estimated 250,000 Cubans who have applied for exit visas actually have close kin in America. The crush at Opa-Locka was to place names on that vital list...