Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More precisely, it is a film about how Mom overcomes Dad's loud protests and brings assorted orphans into the house. She does this by weeping, by putting the frost on, by cajoling, or by any combination of these techniques. Mixed Company is a good case for the founding of men's lib. Not only is Dad generally a nitwit; he is not even a virile one. A recent case of the mumps has put him out of the reproductive action, and he is impotent even in his job. His work and his home life are the same...
...these flaws were not enough, the movie has the style and texture of an Army training film. When Dad, first learning of his infertility, asks Mom (in front of the doctor) to reassure him that he has indeed made every valiant effort, she responds with a pert, "Oh, yes, dear. You worked your tail off." This may be a small movie, but it is definitely worth hating...
...Hunt moved into the big leagues; he struck a hard bargain with legendary Wildcatter Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, an amiable man with a poor head for figures, and gained control of a vast newly discovered oilfield in East Texas. From then on Hunt expanded his business interests to include pecan growing, asphalt production and H.L.H. products, which marketed a big line of food items. At one point it was estimated that he personally earned $1 million a week...
...have something in common. When Harry dropped by Salt Lake City's Salt Palace to see his son, ex-Beatle George Harrison, 31, now touring the U.S., he ran into Jack Ford, 22, one of the President's boys. Said George proudly to Jack: "This is my Dad. If your Dad is half as good a man as he is, the country's in good hands." When Dad looked puzzled, George explained: "He's the President of the whole...
...talent, Danbury's leading musical citizen. George rigged a contrivance (24 violin strings spread across a clothespress) that produced quarter tones. Determined to stretch his son's musical ear, he had him sing Swanee River in the key of E-flat while Dad accompanied in the key of C. Small wonder that Charles the composer would go on to use polytonality and polyrhythms long before those techniques emerged in the works of Stravinsky and other 20th century musical giants. As Composer Aaron Copland puts it in his preface to the Perlis book: "No one before him had ever...