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...also say that Ryan O'Neal gives the character of the neon scion a warmth and vulnerability entirely missing from the bestseller. His part is chock-full of negative benefits. He does not have to parrot book lines like: "Paine Hall? (Ironic goddamn name!)" Or refer to himself in SJ. Perelmanese as "Yours truly: Law Review, All-Ivy, Harvard. Hordes of people were fighting to get my name and numeral onto their stationery...
...School, and a stint as an executive in the family's chemical company. Republican Du Pont ran a strict party-line campaign, stressing law-and-order and withdrawing his earlier support of Charles Goodell when the White House opened its attack on the New York Senator. The scion of one of the country's largest fortunes also stressed environmental issues during his campaign, advocating stiffer fines for industrial air and water polluters-which included Du Pont. Pierre will be a commuting Congressman. Said his wife after the election: "That's what the Metroliner...
Chopin? This is no ordinary roustabout, no average hardhat. This is a supergypsy, Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...
...training in taking on the famous, however, will hardly be wasted. His op ponent is Robert Taft Jr., still "Young Bob" at 53, scion of the state's most honored political family. Taft squeezed past Ohio's popular Governor James Rhodes to win the Republican senatorial nomination by only 3,165 votes out of more than 900,000 cast. Ohio experts agree that what made the difference was al legations in LIFE that the Governor had been unduly kind to a jailed Mafioso, and that he had run into trouble with the Internal Revenue Service over alleged misuse...
...object of all this compassion is Love Story's heroine, Jenny Cavilleri. She is only a baker's daughter from Cranston, R.T., but her brains got her into Radcliffe, where she catches the eye of Oliver Barrett IV, scion of generations of Bostonian bluebloods. When they marry, OIlie is cut off by his father, struggles through his law-school years, finally lands a good job with a Wall Street firm. Then Jenny dies of leukemia. OIlie falls into his father's arms and-that's right-cries...