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...relations man, Brother Roger and their sister Mary preferred to not talk about it. Said Parks's secretary: "He's very upset about it. None of the Rusk family attended, you know." Neither did any Smiths, except for the bridegroom's parents. Mrs. Rusk's clan turned up in force...
...starved, yes; bastard, no. His legitimacy and parental ties, in fact, are ultimately responsible for the destruction of the Canalis family, a clan as full of brutality and fanaticism as the Karamazovs. Cowed by his father, shunned by his stepmother and stepsister, Anestis blunders his way around the farm until one day he surprises the mute servant girl (Elli Fotiou) in the barn, rapes and kills her-a murder quickly discovered by his parents. Because he is their son, the couple cannot and will not turn the murderer in. In stead, the old man beats the boy remorselessly-and then...
Born. To Teddy Kennedy, 35, youngest of the clan, and Joan Kennedy, 30: their third child, second son, making Joe and Rose grandparents for the 26th time; in Boston...
...always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State have crushed the dirty, free, vicious vagrants...
...that set records around the clock, and with each record came a mystery. Rumored seller of the Picasso: a member of the Greek Embiricos ship-owning clan. Top bidder: a Manhattan dealer named David Mann, who dashed off with his prize without even waiting to have it wrapped. New owners: still unknown at week's end. All Mann, who was pledged to secrecy, would say was that "they are a young American couple, relatively new to the art-collecting scene. I think the wife had known this painting for a long time. It was a dream of hers...