Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waller's "Alligator Crawl" preceeded Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" by more than 40 years. Popular music, like the song titles, derives from an old American tradition. Rock 'n roll was born 20 years ago, like me. The national hit charts were born over 40 years ago, like my dad...
...shows either reflect or strangely caricature their times. In That Girl (1966), Mario Thomas played a single girl in New York City making her career, but always Mom and Dad hovered; her independence was somehow merely cute, a phase. In MTM, Mary Richards-Moore's character-gave a humanely plausible version of American women-some American women-in the early and mid-'70s. Not many, of course, are as lovely as Mary or as funny. She was single, independent, pursued her career, was interested in men but not in an obsessive, husband-trapping way. Many women...
...years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When IC bought Signal-Stat, a New Jersey auto-accessories maker, it assigned Signal-Stat's president Weiger to bolster...
...would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred years." Said Jack Francis Jr., co-owner of the state's biggest cotton-gin firm: "The news was like having your dad die when you're 17. You just aren't ready...
Wait a minute, though! What happens when the other side decides to put on a show itself? What happens when they countersubversively decide to use the Rascals' best weapon--amateur audacity and charm--to win mass approval for themselves? Crafty kids. They ask dad the best way to raise the money, and they ask mum if they can borrow the interior decorator to do the sets and they hire a Professional Director to choreograph the kick line. But No Girls Allowed, so some of the kids stuff their skirts with petticoats and put on phony busts. Step kick kick, step...