Word: brooding
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...Brady brood aside, this summer has no sequels. Which doesn't mean that movie palaces will be awash in originality--only that the creaky formulas will have new labels and that familiar stars will be modeling the retro fashions...
...dinner table, Pop preached an anticommunism that was as fervent as his Catholicism. He was an intimidating, authoritarian figure who revered Senator Joseph McCarthy and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The elder Buchanan proudly reminded his brood that they were the descendants of Mississippi Confederates who fought to save Old Dixie. Not for the Buchanans the Leave It to Beaver homilies of backyard-barbecue morality. Pop fostered a sense of clannishness, of us-against-them resentment that made his children ever vigilant. Pat attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws...
DURACELL BATTERIES The creators of the TV Puttermans, the jowly, cackling family of puppets used to hawk Duracell batteries, seem oblivious to the fact that advertising should, at the very least, never be ugly. The mere sight of this brood, at picnics and on porch swings, could make one long for the disturbing Energizer bunny. Moreover, the ads try to satirize American life's most overcaricatured theme, retro suburbia. Memo to Ogilvy & Mather: let them run down...
...attracting sponsorship-and thus escaping from the refugee camps-than singles do. For good measure, she adds a son (a street kid) and a grandpa (a silent, nutty old guy with a habit of shedding his clothes and climbing trees, hoping to glimpse his lost homeland) to her surrogate brood...
...father, played by Levine. Literally rising from the dead before our eyes, Raymond is harbinger, father and weatherman rolled into one. While he is a remnant of the family's past, Raymond is also Susannah's signpost--he points the way for her to discover the crows, her lost brood. Here we sense the title's dual meaning, that while family is murder, the "murder" (the formal term for a flock of crows) is also family...