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From generation to generation, families wander through clouds of shared images, miasmas of memory, occlusions of oral remembrances. What is recalled of clan history is imprecise, simply because the stories take on shapes imposed by each teller. Sometimes, however, a family will be lucky, and an aunt, an uncle or a cousin will be able to re-create the past with a precision that makes the narrative virtually incontestable, a true copy of what has gone before. That is the nature of Jung Chang's mesmerizing memoir. With a calm that suggests infallibility, she tells the story of her mother...
Friends debating long distance, citizens swamping the lines to Capitol Hill, and lobbyists sending everything by fax meant big profits for the Bell clan...
...quintessential teenage soap opera, Beverly Hills 90210 presents the adventures of the Walsh family--Mom, Dad, and their 11th-grade twins, Brandon and Brenda. The Walsh clan moved from Minneapolis to L.A. at the start of last season...
...murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem. How critical the Hammadis will prove in any final settlement remains uncertain. While Hizballah has asserted that it wants the brothers back, it is possible that the demand is merely a noisy tactic designed to wrest concessions and appease the powerful Hammadi clan...
Sayles has mostly continued to trade the deep pockets of major studios for the deeper satisfaction of making movies on his own. Using the money he earns from writing screenplays such as Clan of the Cave Bear, the proceeds from a five-year Mac Arthur "genius" grant and funds from private investors, he has turned out a succession of impressive films. Among them: The Brother from Another Planet (1984), the adventures of a black extraterrestrial, and Matewan (1987), a historical saga about striking West Virginia coal miners in the 1920s. His most ambitious project, Eight Men Out (1988), a retelling...