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...tram passes one movie set, a propman waves jerkily, keying the tour's theme: high tech meets low comedy. A guide points to a sound stage where new Mouseketeers are taping a show: "They do their own stunts, and they do them without Annette." On monitors, TV's Huxtable clan explains how a sitcom is shot, while patriarch Cosby dresses up in various sports uniforms and shouts, "I'm goin' to Disney World!" Beatty explains set design, Lucas and two mechanical friends discuss post-production, Gibson and Herman demonstrate sound editing, Midler stars in a short comedy with lots...
...talk about Milly and her recent litter has been part of the White House's conscious campaign to make the Bush family appear as one, big, happy clan...
...Huntington's disease. His evidence suggested that the marker must be near the Huntington's disease gene on the same chromosome, but he needed a larger sample to confirm his findings. This was provided by Wexler, who had previously traveled to Venezuela to chart the family tree of a clan of some 5,000 people, all of them descendants of a woman who died of Huntington's $ disease a century ago. Working with DNA samples from affected family members, Gusella and Wexler in 1983 concluded that they had indeed found a Huntington's marker, which was located near...
...GRAPES OF WRATH Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe adapted Steinbeck's novel of the Dust Bowl into an absorbing three-hour docudrama marked by ruthless unsentimentality about the Joad clan, clinging haplessly and disastrously to folk wisdom and totemic faith in the family...
Michael Milken, his wife and three children spent the day strolling through midtown Manhattan, looking for all the world like just another clan of holiday shoppers. But for the workaholic Milken, the idyll ended when he received some distressing news: the company that stood by him through almost two years of Government investigations had abruptly decided to settle its case with prosecutors, effectively cutting him adrift to fight his own battle. The junk- bond king, 42, who has created billions of dollars in revenue for Drexel, made hundreds of millions for himself and ranks as the most influential financier...