Word: kinships
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...Chicago politics, patronage is not exactly unknown. Even nepotism is a lively tradition: Mayor Jane Byrne's husband and daughter both work for her. But no one takes kinship more seriously than Chicago City Alderman Fred Roti. He admitted last week that 16 members of his family are on the municipal payroll. Roti, 60, a Byrne loyalist, says it is all relative: "So, I have some relatives on the payroll. They're doing an excellent job. What's the beef...
Beyond the ties of kinship lurks the threat of death, and revenge killings among the cocaine traders certainly contribute...
These are the modern-day mongrels of the range. They bear little kinship with the untamed steeds of frontier America, which traced their lineage to the 16th century ponies of the conquistadors. These are the great nephews and cousins, long inbred, many of them descended from domesticated animals turned loose in the 1930's, when forage was scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal...
...role of Mark Dolson for four performances two weeks ago at the Wilbur. "It was a good feeling because a play goes through the hands of so many people that you don't really feel it's your own. Playing Mark was a way of reclaiming it." The kinship between Davis and his character is clear--both had to achieve a balance between "Kicking ass and kissing...
Especially in a place like New York, the kinship is like nothing so much as soldiers on a front line. The horrible, griding adversity draws the men together as almost nothing else can, leading them to hate the system--both the crooks and the courts--that makes their world the way it is. So the cops live outside the system: sometimes they steal because they are greedy, sometimes because they figure they deserve the money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they...