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...Little Bastards." Dean said that Mitchell seemed to be particularly worried that word would get out about Vesco's close involvement with two of the President's relatives-Donald A. Nixon, 27, the President's nephew and a Vesco aide; and Edward Nixon, 43, the President's brother, who had played a minor role in arranging Vesco's contribution...
...systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan was taken to a U.D.A. where he was battered in the face with pick handles, stabbed repeatedly, then hoisted by his ankles to a roof beam and dropped head first to the floor below -all in an apparent effort to gain information. McCartan, his killer said, groaned out the names...
George Kennan, the uncle of American ambassador George F. Kennan, was--like his nephew--an expert on the history of Russia. Kennan's private collection of artifacts of Russian history is maintained by the Prints and Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. The collection is stored in five separate cardboard boxes, and among the artifacts are scores of photographs of Russian revolutionaries. Most of the men and women portrayed in the photos were part of the struggle that commenced in the early 1870s and culminated with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II on April 3, 1881. I photographed...
...Thousand Clowns. "It's about this guy Murray, O.K. He runs this kiddie T.V. show. His 13-year-old nephew has all these different names. A social worker comes over and they mindfuck with the social worker. Once the old man--who says he and the kid's mother (who is Murray's sister) communicate mostly by rumor--yells up at an apartment, 'Hey there rich people. Come out at ten o'clock and play volleyball.' It's all a woof against capitalism." All this was said to us by a friend from the south side of our town...
...benefit of hermits, Mame is sort of a superannuated Sally Bowles, an addled adventuress who nurtures her orphaned nephew Patrick in her own freewheeling ways. Mame is supposed to lead a lavishly bohemian life, although her pranks and her parties as shown here would not look outré even to a congregation of missionaries. Patrick, however, remains wide-eyed with wonderment over the decades and throughout excursions down South (where Mame marries into Southern gentility) and up North to Connecticut, where she exposes the family of his affianced as a bunch of bigoted yahoos. The movie spans about 20 years...