Word: kinships
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...much time at the plantation that Bill Edwards, the site manager, finally slipped her a key to use at will. When some Somerset descendants moseyed up from nearby Creswell to eyeball the preparations, Redford greeted them, and they her, in the lilting tones familiar everywhere as the voice of kinship. "Hello there, sugar." "How you doin', darlin'?" Said Redford: "The whole thing's going to be like one big family reunion." In the program Redford and others have planned, even the feature events -- a concert of spirituals, an art exhibition, the re- enactment of a slave wedding, a blues performance...
...common experience of Ellis Island fostered a fitting sort of quasi- kinship among U.S. citizens: nearly half of all Americans today can trace their lineage through the enormous main registry hall. Last week, as two visitors strolled the rich, elegiac ruin, a workman spontaneously announced his family connection with the place. "My grandmother came here when she was 17 years old," he shouted, "with nothing but a suitcase full of oranges. A suitcase full of oranges...
...Gallery. Perhaps only in America, where the cultural role of depictive drawing was so quashed and ghettoized by a quarter-century of "official" abstraction, could Katz be seen as a draftsman of any special quality. One would not wish to begrudge him his work with absurdly exalted claims of kinship with Degas, Velazquez or, for that matter, Fred Astaire...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...
...Titan II on the ground in New Mexico and had "blasted the thing just absolutely apart." The test was research for the President's Star Wars defense against missiles. Hitting a grounded target may have been a breeze, but the potency of the laser also showed the potential kinship in technology between knocking out satellites and destroying missiles...