Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long a leap to opine 20 years later, during the ascendancy of the religious right, "Every good Christian ought to kick Jerry Falwell in the ass." Throughout Goldwater's career runs the spirit of Uncle Morris, leaning forward and telling the busybodies, as his nephew would put it, to cut the crap. In his curmudgeon's heart, Barry Goldwater knew he was right, and more often than...
...that whatever romantic fantasies she had about frontier life are nothing like the harsh environment she suddenly finds herself immersed in. Fortunately, Thomas's friends and their wives prove to be characters sparkling with personality and wit, who make the brutally cold first winter almost tolerable. Soon her adventurous nephew Frank arrives, and Lidie's life, though difficult, brings her contentment...
...last we saw of Youngman onstage was for Scorsese's Mafia in 1990's "GoodFellas." At 85, the machine gun was still going strong. For his last birthday, Youngman gathered some reporters for a reading of his "Last Will and Testament": "To my nephew Irving, who still keeps asking me to mention him in my will: 'Hello, Irving!'" The one-liner will never be the same...
...little girls clutch their Christmas dolls and mischievous boys pound on their drums and blow their horns, and Clara dances a pretty pas de deux with her godfather. The only element that detracts from the charm of the party scene is the extraneous and annoying presence of Drosselemeyer's nephew, who imitates his uncle's every move and gesture, down to the eyepatch. The magic, after all, is between Clara and Drosselmeyer; the nephew only gets in the way--especially at the end of the party, when Clara falls asleep holding the nutcracker, and the nephew takes it from...
What animates Nearer are Buckley's personal chapters: his recollection of a year or so at a Jesuit boarding school in England, an awed visit to Lourdes, and a moving account of his nephew Michael Bozell's ordination as a Benedictine priest in France. In a charming tribute to onetime Punch editor Malcolm Muggeridge, he recounts, with dry hilarity, a private audience with the Pope at which a badly briefed John Paul II seemed utterly baffled as to who his guests were. (Buckley nonetheless managed to inform the Pope--and us--that he too has a private chapel at home...