Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swinger like his dad, young Frank doesn't drink or gamble. So the merchandised vices of Hurrah's held little interest for him, and he had been spending his free time in his room in one of the motels that Harrah's maintains for performers and guests, watching TV, drinking Cokes, and listening to tapes of his own performances and his father's, whose way with a lyric has long been to him the canon of perfection...
...sorry, Dad," said young Frank. Said Frank Sr., embracing him: "You don't have anything to be sorry...
...number of other tricks up its transistorized sleeve. With the addition of a tiny TV camera (about $150), Telcan can turn the living room into a studio so that shots of Sister tap dancing in her new stretch pants, Uncle Al wearing the lamp shade at the party, or Dad doing his R.C.A.F. exercises can be immortalized on tape for instant see-back on the family TV set, like Polaroid movies...
...spouts familiar teen-age protests. "I hate the whole world," he shouts at one point. "I hate everybody who has the right to bang his fist on the table, to give marks." But the reader is mistaken who thinks he is listening in on James Dean complaining to Dad because he can't have the family car for a double date. Seryosha's father has been taken away by the NKVD, and the boy has encountered in Joseph Stalin and the local commissar a pair of fa ther images worthy of hate...
...decorations for heroism, the beloved dictator smiles. He raises his arm in a smart, left-handed salute. Suddenly his mother begins banging a spoon against the banister downstairs: "Hey, your boiled egg is stone-cold." All right, luv. He goes to breakfast, gets ready for work, listens to Mum, Dad and Granny whining platitudes until he turns from his shaving mirror just long enough to mow them down with a tommy...