Even as a sequestered and dishonored relic in 1976, she could declare: "If Hitler came through this door today, I'd be just as glad, just as happy, to see him here, to have him here, as ever". Her granddaughter's account of this imperious woman, in "The Wagners: The Dramas of a Musical Dynasty," is a triumph of analytic portraiture.
I thought about the driver who turned left to avoid him rather than calling the police, and prayed that if my granddaughter ever were lost, that wouldn't happen to her.
An America where the newest arrival to our shores is no less American than the ever-so-great granddaughter of the Pilgrims.
La Grange has been his secretary, butler, aide-de-camp, spokesperson, travelling companion, confidante and - as she put it, and he agrees - honorary granddaughter, growing ever closer to him from the day she began work as an anonymous typist in the presidential office in 1994.
I cannot support a candidate for president whom I would not want my own daughters or granddaughters to ever come in contact with.
Theresa (played by Ever Carradine, daughter of Robert, granddaughter of John), who looks like Uma Thurman from one angle and a little like Madonna from another, is a particularly needy gambler.
As she pushed in ever more liberal directions, the granddaughter-in-law even reversed Emily's — and her own — judgment that taking doggie bags from restaurants is "degrading".
Ever since the birth of her first granddaughter, Romy Nicole Konjic, in May, that is all she has talked about.
She now works full time, owns her own flat and speaks lovingly of her daughter and granddaughter – neither of whom have ever touched illicit drugs.
"I always loved luxury," she tells her granddaughter, Jessica (Cécile de France), but the closest she ever came to it was working at the Ritz Hotel.
By contrast, she said, her granddaughters have more than she ever dreamed of, and are still dissatisfied.
