Word: scionness
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...Jenny Lumet (daughter of Sidney Lumet), in which a smugly PC family gathers to celebrate the wedding of their perfectly beautiful, perfectly balanced daughter, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. This is not just a wedding, however; it is also a sociopolitical statement, for the groom is a handsome black man, scion of a family that is far more conventional and bourgeois than the bride's family, and especially the bride's sister, Kym (Anne Hathaway). Rachel's wedding is Kym's first, brief venture back into the real world after a long stint in rehab, and she's the weekend...
...Kennedy, scion of America's most famous political family and a wealthy investor in his day, told of selling his holdings before the 1929 market crash because a shoeshine boy had offered him stock tips. The story may well be apocryphal, but in the decades since, shoeshine boys have become a kind of insider's measure of how a market's doing. In the main shopping center in London's Canary Wharf financial district David Peralta is one such oracle, though not because he hands out investment tips...
...Parliament, verbal exchanges frequently dissolved into shouting matches. Speeches by Singh and Rahul Gandhi, scion of India's most storied political family, were interrupted by incessant heckling. Prior to the debate, frantic lobbying for votes by numerous political organizations, including opposition parties trying to unseat Singh, produced some eyebrow-raising compromises, the details of which were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw...
...pattern of duplicity has a likely source. Israel is the scion of a prominent New Orleans family that founded a successful commodities trading firm. Throughout his life, he has consistently fallen short in his attempts to live up to that legacy, and consistently tried to make up for the difference by pretending. As he wrote earlier this year, "Ever since I can remember, I met people everywhere that have told me they know my family either directly or by reputation. I cheated my investors because I was afraid to admit my failure. I did not want the world to think...
Maung Thura trained as a dental surgeon, but he is the scion of a political family. Both of his parents were writers-turned-activists, and his comedy is characterized by intricate anti-government puns that routinely get him into trouble. After a democratic uprising in 1988 was brutally suppressed by the junta, Maung Thura spent several years in and out of jail. He has been harassed by the junta several times since then, most recently last September when he was arrested for daring to bring food to Buddhist monks who led another doomed pro-democracy push...