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...many of the early cast members in a two-hour fantasy finale that leads J.R. through an It's a Wonderful Life-style tour of what Dallas would have been like without him. And tens of millions of viewers will gather to bid farewell to the most glamorously backstabbing clan since the house of Atreus. They might also pause to consider fondly what Dallas has meant to American pop culture...
Then the Kennedy clan arrived for what Senator Teddy called a "traditional Easter weekend" at the white stucco oceanfront mansion his father bought from Rodman Wanamaker in 1933. This year the weekend included a Good Friday night outing for the Senator, his son Patrick and nephew William Kennedy Smith at Au Bar, the club of the moment, where a mixture of old money, European quasi- royalty, young model-waitresses and the occasional male in a leather miniskirt boogie to loud music. Ted Kennedy sipped his usual, Chivas Scotch, until closing time at 3:30 a.m., when the three men returned...
...Kurds are devout Sunni Muslims who speak a western Iranian language related to Farsi. Kurdistan has no official borders, but stretches from the Zagros Mountains in Iran through parts of Iraq, Syria and eastern Turkey. Most Kurds today are farmers who live in small villages noted for their competitive clan structure and unruliness. They have at times even earned a reputation for brutality. The Turks provoked some Kurdish tribes to join in the massacre of Armenians near the end of the 19th century. Perhaps the most famous Kurd in history was Saladin, the legendary military leader who battled Richard...
...1960s, Object Lessons concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys...
...meets from intellectuals in some of the countries where it is consumed most avidly by mass audiences, but in the overall scheme of things, they are minor. Euro Disneyland is a $4.2 billion project, now nearly six years in the making. No one doubts that Mickey Mouse and his clan will claim their new home on the Continent, probably close to the April 1992 target date. Disney executives predict 11 million visits a year to the theme park, which is being built on former beet and sunflower fields in the suburban development of Marne-La-Vallee, 20 miles east...