Word: affectionate
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The first decision an adopting couple must make is which country. Many factors are involved, including the bureaucratic barriers that will stand in their way. But Stork, a British organization founded by adoptive parents with foreign-born children, recommends that applicants choose a land for which they can develop some...
Archie Bunker used to elicit subtle chuckles when his distant toilet flushes echoed through the Bunker house. When patriarch A1 Bundy runs to the john, the conversation inevitably turns to constipation and masturbation. Roseanne wins affection for her lovable white-trash quips. The overhaired, undersexed leopard-skinclad Peg Bundy can...
Sure, the emotional warfare appeals to our voyeurism, but it also reminds us about us. We're all afraid of rejection, yet starved for affection. We all take part in the battle of the sexes, the survival of the fittest (prettiest, coolest, sexiest, nicest, blondest), the politics of the morning...
Here we have a family of basically admirable people who haven't got a clue and never will. We can enjoy their occasional moments of cleverness, Bart's imaginative schemes, Homer's seconds of affection, but it all comes out right in the end.
Where was my father while all this was going on? you may ask. He was always away on business. To me he was as much a phantom as the woman who visits me in the night. My mother wept and wailed over his sexual dalliances, but then she turned to...