Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little tykes, they worried that their organs would never grow as large as Daddy's. "I think maybe the whole world is all like that," Ron tells Lucky. "Russians, Chinese, Americans; Presidents, Prime Ministers, Heads of State; everybody. All of them trying so hard to grow up to Dad's, Dad's thing. And remaining small boys inside because they just...
Candid Obit. As for the children, there were only two ways of defeating bohemia: to become a complete square, like Caspar John, who turned his back on the turpentine turmoil, joined the British Navy and rose to become First Sea Lord; or to go Dad one better, as did Nicolette's sister Caitlin, who married Dylan Thomas and enthusiastically embraced his pub-and-pad life style. Nicolette herself became an artist, because "art" was the only thing she could do, and married an artist-Anthony Devas-because artists were the only people she knew. But she had the good...
August 1966: "Dear Mom & Dad, I am, really, looking forward to going to Viet Nam. Please don't worry about me. I'll be fine...
Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina was always the apple of her father's eye-but what an eye it was! Her dad was Iosif Stalin, and Svetlana was among the very few to whom he ever showed any real tenderness. In notes to her, full of fatherly affection, Stalin signed himself "Papochka" (little daddy). Even though he objected to her choice of a husband in 1951, the Soviet dictator staged a $500,000 czarist-style marriage feast that went on for two weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin...
...even better on the wide screen, as when he Freudian slips, "I like the way you thinch, Fink" and intones the college musical lampoon, Grand Old Ivy. For the first time, Hollywood seems to have cracked the Morse code: after appearing in a succession of turkeys-most recently Oh Dad, Poor Dad (TIME, March 3)-Bobby is finally allowed to steal a picture the way he stole the show. He burbles with the irresistible energy of a degenerate Peter Pan as he chants to a mirror, I Believe...