"I want you to write this thing, son," Big Bill said to him, laying a hand on his shoulder, "not only because I trust you, but because others do, too.
Maybe Gary Barlow could record a charity song to raise money for a memorial in Maidstone town centre apologising to Chris Smalling for all those people – yes, us – who used to yell on the touchline and tell him to get rid and who applauded whenever he sent it long into the channels because big, son, big, it's got to go big.
Koch emphasized rugged pursuits, taking his sons big-game hunting in Africa, and requiring them to do farm labor at the family ranch.
As effortless as the decision was, Toney put in the diligence, as did Harry Douglas III, his sons' biggest cheerleader and promoter.
Kept at bay, the remaining members of his family — including two sons with big houses, big cars, big waistlines — have no choice but to let him stew alone.
"Ellison was shut out, and Richard Wright was elected godfather of the Black Arts Movement of the nineteen-sixties, because Wright's hero in 'Native Son,' Bigger Thomas, cuts off a white girl's head and stuffs her in a furnace.
That night, I dreamed I had another son, a bigger one, and he punched me in the neck and I stumbled off the edge of a skyscraper.
Giving the Fed more power, he argued, "is like a parent giving his son a bigger, faster car right after he crashed the family station wagon".
As they work to clarify hazy memories of their son, a bigger picture of a forgotten war, and the devices used to repress memories of those lost, resurfaces.
It was all much more personal, Mr. Bush's friends said, and it betrayed a simmering ire that his son's big moment and his son's big party was being crashed by a man who, in the former president's view, had no manners.
