Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happens in Tumbleweeds; that's what doesn't happen in Anywhere but Here. If you follow the form charts, it should have been otherwise. The latter film has the big stars (Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman), the name creators (director Wayne Wang of The Joy Luck Club; writer Alvin Sargent, adapting the best-selling novel by Mona Simpson), a capacious budget. What it doesn't have is a central figure you can give a hoot about...
...Many had the family's customary moral earnestness and alertness to any instance of social justice denied. But of 29 cousins, only four have so far gone on to elected office. Ted's son Patrick is a Congressman from Rhode Island. Mark Shriver, the son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, is a second-term Maryland state legislator. Bobby's daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is that state's Lieutenant Governor. Her brother Joe II was a six-term Congressman from J.F.K.'s old Boston district before he retired from politics last year after a brief bid for the Massachusetts governorship...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921- --A social worker in Harlem during the '40s, she runs the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which helps the mentally retarded. She founded the Special Olympics and is credited with its success --Husband Sargent Shriver headed the Peace Corps. In 1972 he was George McGovern's running mate...
...Robert Sargent Shriver III 1954-present Film, record and TV producer; raises money for Special Olympics...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921-present A keen mind, she married Sargent Shriver and propelled the Special Olympics...