A third strand is provided by the generic WASP family that anchors the tale.

How life changes for an old WASP family when the head of a crime family becomes its neighbor on Long Island's North Shore.

On its side were the disembodied heads of a WASP family, Mom, Dad, Sis, and Junior, all with gleaming grins -hygienic ones, presumably.

Mr. Martin's prototypical WASP family is dominated by a creationist dad who says that heaven is 17 miles above the earth.

Life changes for an old WASP family when the head of a crime family becomes its neighbor.

Gabe also has a relationship with Marge Howells, an undergraduate from a well to do WASP family who is openly rebelling from her parents.

In contrast with other elites, the labor leaders did not come from established WASP families with rich, well-educated backgrounds.

Previously, culture had been considered the province of WASP families from Pasadena and Hancock Park.

The afflictions of a repressed WASP family are certainly reasonable food for movie drama, with Woody Allen's "Interiors" a powerful modern prototype.

Brooks Brothers now seems well aware that its business is not tied solely to scions of old WASP families.