Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Family members and associates of the accused embassy guards insist that military investigators have vastly exaggerated the espionage charges. "They are convinced they've got a major Russian spy on their hands," said one kinsman. "What they've got is a horny Marine." In Santa Ana, Calif., Lawyer Michael Sheldon, who had earlier represented Weirick on a drunk-driving charge, said the accused spy "certainly didn't seem to be a man of great means. He paid his fees on the slow-fee plan. Sometimes he missed a payment...
...town surrounded by pastures, where cattle graze alongside active oil pumps. An only child, Pickens was raised on a street of white clapboard houses and green lawns. The family is fond of tracing its ancestry back to the same part of England that produced a distant kinsman, Daniel Boone...
...from Charlie's point of view, a destructive one. Diane demands, just before leaving in final disgust, "Why are you always one inch away from being a good person?," knowing full well the answer lies in the tribal loyalty that keeps him bound to his wackily wayward kinsman. But there is more to the male bonding than that, as this bleakly, sneakily comic movie explains. For all his sharp airs and knowing style, Charlie is a rather passive character. He needs the lift hat Paulie, bouncing through life like a Spauldeen in a stickball game, can give...
Tanner, a lawyer turned private investigator in San Francisco, has come back home to settle the future of the family farm with his nonfarming siblings. The 320-acre spread is coveted by a clutch of corporations, and the family is divided on whether to sell. The only kinsman making real money from the acreage is Tanner's nephew Billy, raising bumper crops of marijuana on the back 40. An embittered Viet Nam veteran and victim of dioxin burns, Billy has succeeded in exposing several of Chaldea's leading villains. When he is found hanging from a tree, town...
After Kapuuo's death, a kinsman of his named Quame became Herero chief and attempted to step into Kapuuo's political shoes. He lacked Kapuuo's charisma, though, and lost the party's support. Under white leadership, the new constitution swiftly bogged down; the white "ethnic authority" found a way to appropriate for itself all white property taxes--about 90 percent of the country's total--an unforeseen loophole that neutralized the convention's gains...