Word: child
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tolstoy says, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, so too each child who sleeps through class and cheats on exams has his or her personal story to tell. Suzanne Somers' is about growing up with an alcoholic father. Somers, who played the voluptuous nit-brain Chrissy on the TV hit Three's Company, describes family meals that ended in a cascade of broken dishes and foul-mouthed rages that left her cowering in the closet. As she got older she ran away in other ways: school problems; an early, unwanted pregnancy and marriage; and a bad-check...
...priestess of fertility, this Danielle Steel. After the birth of her ninth child, Zara, and the publication of her 23rd book, both mother and author are doing well. Steel these days enters best-seller lists at the top. Kaleidoscope, one of her better tear-stained efforts, is about a less fortunate lady, Hilary Walker, whose father strangled her mother and then killed himself, who was torn from her two beloved sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make...
...hyperpotent" male Yippies to seduce the delegates' wives, to paint cars to look like taxis and kidnap delegates to Wisconsin. The underground Express Times warned, "If you're going to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair" -- a sardonic echo of the sweet flower-child tune of the summer before ("If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...
...union claims correctly that several crucial issues are involved. According to Kris Rondeau, an organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), they include pay equity, child care programs, parental leave, career advancement and job flexiblity programs. Despite my opposition to the union, I too support each of these programs...
RADIO DAYS Woody Allen recalls the power of a mass medium and a messy family in shaping a child's imagination. This memory play is also a rueful reflection on the ways time's passage both diminishes and enhances that power...