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...PATRIARCH: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BINGHAM DYNASTY...
...Kennedys") would degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert to fat, sloppy baby...
...father, John Tedeschi convincingly recalls the early days of his marriage. And Damon Myers, as the young father (in flashbacks) is perfectly campy, capturing the essence of the 1950s patriarch. The actors portraying the family's younger generation all perform well, although Victor Jannett seems slightly out of place in the "all-I-ever-needed-was-a-Dad" role of Junior...
...1960s, Object Lessons concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys...
...moment but relishing their time in the spotlight. In the Senate the towering Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York stood in the back row in brown suede shoes to plead his case. Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, not so long ago a wild political youngster, rose as a silver-haired patriarch. Near him, Iowa's Tom Harkin, popping pills to settle an unruly stomach, his hair a little too long for a true corn-belt troubadour, watched and waited to gather up some of the moment's somber glory. History is made of such things in such times...